Overview
Glycerine IIIF platform lets curators and researchers host, annotate and publish digitised image collections, and interpret them together.
Glycerine IIIF platform is built by Systemik Solutions, with co-investment from the Australian Research Data Commons, and is already at work across a range of research and heritage projects. At the University of Sydney, it underpins the Gandhāran Manuscripts project, helping researchers annotate and study some of the earliest surviving witnesses to Buddhist thought, and Opening Australia’s Multilingual Archive, which uses the country’s overlooked non-English archives to rethink migrant and settler history. The Buddhas and Bodhisattvas project, involving the Art Gallery of NSW, the National Gallery of Australia, and several other institutions, uses Glycerine Workbench and Glycerine Viewer for art-historical analysis of early Buddhist iconography.
Team
Glycerine IIIF platform is built by Systemik Solutions, a consulting group and digital humanities lab. Systemik designs, builds, and supports research infrastructure for the humanities, including open-source platforms, research websites, and integration work that connects new tools to the systems institutions already use.
Systemik is led by founder and director Ian McCrabb with chief technologist Yang Li. The company operates with a core team of full-stack developers and UX/UI designers, supported by a long-standing network of contract designers and developers, and specialist collaborators contributing research domain expertise.
Partners
Glycerine IIIF platform is built on open standards and developed alongside the organisations that shape them.
Glycerine Workbench received co-investment from the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) as part of the HASS and Indigenous RDC CDL project. The ARDC is enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).
Licensing
Glycerine IIIF platform combines open-source and proprietary modules, and the licence differs by module.
The four core modules are below; the modules page states the licence for every module, including the integrations for WordPress and Omeka S.
Glycerine Viewer is open source under the MIT licence. You can embed it, modify it and host it yourself, including commercially. Source: github.com/Systemik-Solutions/glycerine-viewer
Glycerine Workbench and Glycerine Server are proprietary and their source is not publicly released. Both are available as a hosted subscription service, and both can also be deployed into an institution’s own infrastructure under a custom arrangement.
Glycerine Editor is proprietary and its source is not publicly released. It is not a hosted service. It is a module integrated into your existing platform — digital asset management, collections management or content management — under a custom arrangement.
Your material is portable regardless of licence: collections, annotations and manifests export as IIIF and in open, standardised data formats, so nothing you create is locked to the platform.