yale-mirador

Yale Mirador Extension

This projects embeds Mirador and also contains some modifications and extensions to it.

Definitions

Some clarification of the terms we will be using because it can get quite confusing:

• IIIF Mirador: the original Mirador project and its code at https://github.com/IIIF/mirador
• Yale Core: the Yale fork of Mirador with the same structure as "IIIF Mirador" but with the minimal code modifications we had to made to make it work with the embedding environment. (https://github.com/yale-web-technologies/mirador)
• Yale Extension: this project. It has its own project structure and includes additional JavaScript and styles added on top of "Mirador Core".

Download and Initial Setup

git clone --recursive [e-mail]:yale-web-technologies/yale-mirador.git
cd yale-mirador
npm install  # Install node modules for yale-mirador 
cd submodules/mirador
npm install -g grunt-cli
npm install  # Install node modules for the submodule mirador 

Note that the "Yale Core" is defined as a git submodule of This project, under submodules/mirador.

Update

git pull --recurse-submodules

And do npm install as above in case dependency changed.

Bulid

npm run build

It runs grunt for Mirador and webpack for Yale Extension, and creates output files in dist/.

To build them separately,

npm run build:mirador
npm run build:yale-mirador

Running the Example

npm run start

Then open http://localhost:3000 from a web browser.

Test

Install karma-cli globally so the karma command becomes available.

npm install -g karma-cli

Make sure to build first to populate the dist folder, and

npm run test

Deploy

Dependency

See package.json for dependencies – note the version requirements. Notably you should include

• JavaScript Cookie
• Semantic UI
• Golden Layout

The app also depends on jQuery but it is embedded in "IIIF Mirador", which may complicate the asset management.

JavaScript

"Golden Layout" should be included after "Yale Core" and before "Yale Extension" because it depends on jQuery, because "Yale Core" embeds jQuery in itself, and because "Yale Extension" depends on it.

Parameters

Via Cookies

• loggedIn: 'true' or 'false'
• isEditor: 'true' or 'false'

Via HTML

See example/index.html for the HTML required to run the app. In addition to the IDs and classes of the HTML elements, there are some parameters that must be passed through the #viewer_template element:

• data-settings-url: The host site should implement an API endpoint for the JavaScript client to download server settings from. See below for the format of the payload.
• data-manifest-url: This is the URL of the IIIF manifest to load. Only one manifest will be loaded into a Mirador window at a time.
• data-room-id: ID of the "room" (or a project). Some settings (e.g. tagHierarchy) are defined per room. The host should figure out and manage the room IDs.

Optional (only to load specific resources):

• data-canvas-id: e.g. "http://manifests.ydc2.yale.edu/LOTB/canvas/bv11"
• data-toc-tags: e.g. "chapter22,scene2"
• data-layer-ids: e.g. "http://mirador-annotations-lotb.herokuapp.com/layers/Tibetan,http://mirador-annotations-lotb.herokuapp.com/layers/English"
• data-annotation-id: ID of the annotation to load; e.g. "http://annotations.example.org/annotations/123"

NOTE**(!)**: When optional parameters are passed, data-canvas-id is required.

Via API

The client construct a URL API_URL?room_id=ROOM_ID where API_URL is data-settings-url and ROOM_ID is data-room-id from above.

An example of the response from the API:

{
  {
    buildPath: '/mirador',
    tagHierarchy: null,
    endpointUrl: 'http://mirador-annotations-lotb.herokuapp.com'
  };
}

buildPath is the absolute URL root path under which all Yale-Mirador assets can be referenced. (e.g. /sites/all/modules/mirador-project/yale-mirador)