Instructors: M.A. Matienzo, Leander Seige, Annika Schröer, Anna Keller, Elias Kreyenbühl

Mirador has been one of the most popular applications in the IIIF community for many years. Among the outstanding features of Mirador is the ability to display multiple documents side by side, as well as to annotate the displayed images. This makes Mirador an excellent basis for building workspaces that enable users to create their own collections of resources, annotate them, and generally work with the universe of IIIF images in a powerful, efficient, and systematic way.

In 2017, Stanford University Libraries created mirador@stanford, a platform based on Mirador 2 that demonstrated these possibilities as a proof of concept. The Zurich Central Library is also working on a virtual working environment based on Mirador at the institutional level, which will make it possible to create and work with individual collections of material. But such offerings need not be limited to the institutional context. The frontend of the German manuscript portal built by Leipzig University Library integrates Mirador as a central tool and also intends to enable the annotation of IIIF resources as well as the ability to work with text material to a wide range of users. More recently, Stanford has also prototyped Mise, an updated and expanded collaborative virtual research environment for image resources built on Mirador 3.

To use Mirador as a productive working environment, new features are required that go beyond the core functions of Mirador. These features include, for example, the connection to identity management systems for the authorization and identification of users, the assignment of annotations to their authors, preferably on the basis of standardized identities, and ways for users to group and organize related workspaces. Some workspaces may need to support image hosting for cases where IIIF resources may not currently exist. There are also questions that arise, such as the options for publishing viewer state, annotations, and possibly longer texts, their classification as micropublications, and their persistent identifiability. Moreover, more complex workspaces are likely to be particularly useful if they can not only be shared but also passed on in edited form. Other open questions are how IIIF-based work environments can be designed in a user-friendly way so that they can be operated without prior technical or IIIF knowledge, and how they can be created or discovered by users.

This workshop on "Mirador as a Workspace" aims to discuss these requirements and questions, both from a technical and conceptual perspective. The facilitators will exchange ideas on the different aspects of using Mirador as a productive working environment, share experiences, and think through future projects together.