Infrastructure Integration

Glycerine IIIF modules support a range of implementation patterns

  • Glycerine Server provides a back-end model and APIs for integration with existing digital asset management infrastructure. 
  • Glycerine Editor  can be embedded into existing collections management workflows, or in the organisation’s content management system for external contributors.
  • Glycerine Viewer can be themed and embedded in a content management system. 
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Implementation Patterns 

No Existing IIIF Infrastructure  

Glycerine Editor installs into your data management system and connects out of the box to Glycerine Server, which acts as both IIIF and annotation server. Glycerine Viewer gets manifests directly from Glycerine Server. 

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Existing IIIF Infrastructure 

Use this if your organisation has its own IIIF infrastructure (captioned ‘Data Management System’ in the flow chart), that can generate manifests from its data models, and you want to keep your own annotations data store rather than adopting IIIF services from Glycerine Server.

  • Glycerine Editor is installed and configured into your data management system. 
  • Editor reads the manifests from your Data Management System, and annotations are communicated to Glycerine Server via the Web Annotation API.
  • Your system will aggregate the annotations from Glycerine Server into a full manifest, before serving it to Glycerine Viewer.
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Existing IIIF and Annotation Infrastructure 

Glycerine Editor installed in the Data Management System and read/writes annotations to the existing data store using WAP. Glycerine Viewer gets manifests from the existing Data Management System.

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Institutional Pricing

Glycerine Server and Glycerine Editor are sustained through annual subscription which enables Systemik Solutions to provide subscribers with support and updates. Systemik Solutions provides full integration and implementation support consulting to integrate Glycerine IIIF modules in your infrastructure and workflows, and both GitHub and service-level support options.  Contact us for a pilot implementation guide and GitHub access.

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