Repositories – Goetgevonden

As a final step in our data processing process, we have made the data available online to everyone. We have chosen simple standard formats for this. We use different ‘repositories’ for each data type, each of which can be used via a web API. Where standards for such repository APIs exist, we have applied them.

We offer the scans of the pages from the resolution books in a standardised manner, namely via IIIF services. IIIF image services offer the possibility to point to and request each part of each image using URLs. Goetgevonden makes it possible to point to or request each image fragment that belongs to each resolution using a URL.

In a similar manner, we offer texts per resolution book via our own IIIF-inspired text repository TextRepo. Analogous to the image services, this text repository enables everyone to point to or request any text fragment in such a book. This raw text can then be used as desired, for example for automatic text analysis.

Collected and organised knowledge sources (entities) are offered as Linked Open Data.

Finally, all logical and physical structural elements of Goetgevonden are available in the form of W3C web annotations, searchable and retrievable via our annotation repository AnnoRepo. Such web annotations bundle URLs that refer to associated image and text fragments with associated metadata. With this approach, we are in line with both Linked Open Data and IIIF standards. In addition, we apply the so-called ‘FAIR principles’ (findability, accessibility, interchangeability and reusability) and provide for the possibility of future updates and expansion of the data.