Our NGA library speakers discuss their procedures and challenges in providing digitized content from their collections via the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), an initiative led by the world's leading research libraries. It is an open source, community-driven technology that aims to provide application programming interfaces (APIs) that support viewing, comparing, manipulating, and annotating images from a variety of repositories. The NGA Library made the decision to implement IIIF alongside its new library system, Ex Libris. Alma and Primo VE products, and our speakers discuss the technical procedures required to integrate the IIIF APIs with the Primo VE discovery client and Alma, the cloudbased library services platform. Members of the NISO Content Platform Migration workgroup discuss their recommended practices document to guide publishers, platform vendors, and librarians through content migrations. Hear about the problems encountered in migrations and the recommendations to make them progress smoothly.

1. Bringing Collections to the
Screen
Yuri Long, National Gallery of Art
Yuning Zhou, National Gallery of Art
Athena Hoeppner, University of Central Florida
Matthew Ragucci, Wiley

2. Meet the Presenters
Yuri Long
Special Collections Librarian
National Gallery of Art
Yuning Zhou
Library Systems Specialist
National Gallery of Art
Athena Hoeppner
Discovery Services Librarian
University Central Florida Libraries
Matthew Ragucci
Associate Director of Product Marketing
Wiley

3. Agenda
• Introductions
• NGA Library Digital Presentation
• NGA Library Technical Solutions
• Publisher and librarian perspectives on Content
Platform Migrations
• NISO - CPM overview and actions

4. Integrating ExLibris and IIIF APIs
Digital Image Presentation
in Library Discovery

5. Legacy Library Catalog
• ILS-Voyager
• Third-party Javascript
Library
• JPGs: 250px,
1024px, 1920px,
3100px

6. Challenge
• FADGI 4-star
guidelines for capture,
processing and
preservation
• Low resolution
presentation
• Limited navigation
• No integration with
other systems

7. Rationale
• Scalability
• Number of images doubles year over year
• Size and quality of assets continually improving
• Interoperability
• Multiple repositories – other NGA departments, Digital Cicognara
Library/Getty Portal
• Layers of access – home grown and licensed content; public domain and
copyrighted material
• Variety of use cases – research, teaching presentations, print and online
illustration

8. Features
• Deep zoom
• Enhanced navigation
• Metadata drawn from existing records
• Additional download options
• Open object manifests with a variety of viewers
• https://library.nga.gov/permalink/01NGA_INST/1cl1g8d/alma99164673504896
• https://library.nga.gov/permalink/01NGA_INST/1cl1g8d/alma994303504896

9. Solutions
• Cloud-based Library
Services Platform:
Alma/Primo
• International Image
Interoperability
Framework (IIIF)
Implementation
• Integrations

10. IIIF Server
• Data
pyramid tiffs
• Image API
Cataloupe
• Metadata
manifest.json
• Image Viewer
universal viewer

11. Integrations
• Alma Rest APIs • Primo Customization
Development Environment

12. Digital Workflow-1
• Bib metadata in MARC21
exported from Alma
Publishing/Export profile
• 957 field is flagged as
manifest

13. Digital Workflow-2
• NGA manifest generator program with Alma API call • Holding metadata retrieved viaAlma rest API

14. Digital Workflow-3
• IIIF-compliant manifest in
json format, naming in
Alma ID

15. Digital Workflow-4
• 957 set to be viewer via
Alma API:
flag Primo to display IIIF
viewer of this
manifest/record

16. Digital Workflow-5
• Primo Library Discovery:
Image view in IIIF viewer
embedded at record
display

17. NGA Library Digital Collections
• 1,866 + 36,716 manifest; over 200,000 images
• Universal Viewer / Mirador
• IIIF Image API Server: Cantaloupe
• Manifest Generation: Python, Pymarc, iiif-prezi
• Pyramidal tiff: vips
• Alma APIs
• Primo Customization Development

18. Wiley’s platform perspective
Publisher migration experience

19. Wiley Online Library migration to Literatum
• March 2018
• Move from homegrown to known product
• Cross-team collaboration required
• Leveraged external relationships
• Communications cadence and planning
• Hard cutover (less room for error)

20. Data exchange experience
• Redirects proved essential
(preferably in perpetuity)
• New linking for vendors
OpenURL parameters
KBART files
MARC records
Chapter and article-level metadata
• Proxy stanza updates
• CrossRef refresh
• Usage data (remained until 2019)

21. Resources
 Migration hub site
 Global email campaign
 Thorough technical FAQ
 Brief checklist
 URL Crosswalk document
 Trained support staff

22. Challenges
• Rolling launch date
• Finding the “right” person(s)
• Meeting all stakeholder needs
• Post-migration troubleshooting
• Did we do it right?

23. University of Central Florida & North Carolina State University
perspectives
Xiayan Song, Electronic Resources Librarian
Library migration experience

24. Librarians’ Migration Process Starts with a Notification
 Emails from publishers
 Listservs
 Notification from knowledge base
(KB) vendor
 Emails forwarded from
colleagues
 Issues reported by patrons

25. Assess the Impact
 What resources will be impacted?
 When will the migration happen?
 Is there a hard cut over?
 Will the old links be redirected
permanently?
 What actions do librarians need to
take?

26. A Long List of To-do’s
 Archive holdings and usage from old platform
 Set up new administration accounts
 Inform public service librarians
 Update MARC records and 856 URLs
 Update EZproxy stanzas
 Test new links and redirected old links
 Check KB service vendors metadata and linking
 Test authentication and site functionality
 Verify all holdings migrated

27. Project Management for Migrations at NC State Libraries

28. Snags
 No migration notice
 Challenge identifying applicable ILS records
 Problems with older content and URLs
 Migrated resources in use by classes
 Migration during peak usage period
 Dual platforms for content
 Loss of access or content

29. Content Platform Migration
Work Group

30. Publishers:
1 every 5-10 years
Content Platform Vendors:
5-10 per year
Librarians:
10+ per year and growing
(librarians reported over 30 content
migrated from 2016 to 2019.)
So Many Migrations
Alastair Rae / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red-
billed_quelea_flocking_at_waterhole.jpg

31. The CPM Work Group, Reporting to NISO IPA Task Force
• Athena Hoeppner an Kimberly Stienle (Duke U Press), co-chairs
• Group includes members from libraries, platform and content
vendors, publishers.
• Meet regularly to:
• Draft Work Item and Project timeline
• Divvy Information gathering and share findings
• Write the Recommended Practice
• Plan communication and outreach

32. Develop a recommended practice to help
standardize the processes and provide
provide recommendations to improve
communications before, during and after
during and after migrations.
The Work Item
Geese flying in a row. Good Free Photos.
https://www.goodfreephotos.com/animals/birds/geese-flying-in-a-row.jpg.php

33. Investigating the State of Migrations
• Identify Stakeholder Perspectives and Experiences:
• Publishers
• Content platform providers
• Libraries
• Other technology providers
• Interviews and Surveys
• Review past migration vendor communications and
checklists
• Review past migration plans, timelines, cycles , decisions
Creative Commons Zero - CC0. https://www.pxfuel.com/en/free-photo-xcqry

34. Review Related Standards and Organizations
• TRANSFER Code of Practice
• KBART/KBART Automation
• DOI/Crossref
• Authentication
• Usage (COUNTER & SUSHI)
ABCEditer / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)

35. Schedule and Planned Deliverables
NPS graphic/ S. Sparhawk.. https://www.nps.gov/subjects/pollinators/images/Migration-cycle1.jpg
• Recommendations
• Checklists for publishers, vendors, librarians
• Glossary of key terms
Draft is nearly ready! Next steps:
• Public Comment Period
• Response to Comments and Prepare Final Version
• Publication and Promotion

36. Questions?
y-long@nga.gov
y-zhou@nga.gov
mragucci@wiley.com
athena@ucf.edu