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About
The UV started life in 2013 as the Wellcome Player.
The Wellcome Player was designed to make Wellcome Library content accessible to the public. It uses a custom package format that also supports other media types including audio, video and pdf.
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Wunder der Vererbung (book)
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Camberwell 1944
http://wellcomelibrary.org/moh/report/b18219354
This was mostly OCRed, with the tabular data being cleaned up manually. 250,000 tables were converted to HTML by a company in India.
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Lymphokines (video with PDF transcript)
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Florence Nightingale (audio)
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Establishing Incentives (PDF)
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The chemist and druggist (journal)
The Player was then generously open sourced on Github by the Wellcome Library.
In 2014 we were asked by the British Library to produce a proof of concept with the Wellcome Player consuming IIIF manifests.
Shortly afterwards we were engaged to produce the "Universal Viewer", an app designed to replace the existing viewers on their site, with an initial focus on books and manuscripts.
This project added many new features, including:
- "two-up" mode
- The settings dialogue
- The "full expand" thumbs menu
- An automated test suite
- Right-to-left and top-to-bottom manifests support
- An acknowledgements overlay box
After successful delivery, we were engaged by the National Library of Wales to include to following features:
- Internationisation using http://transifex.com
- A language toggle button
A community of users has since grown around this project. We're really excited to see what comes next!