How will Multi-Volume Works be displayed?

[sdellis]

Multi-Volume Works fall somewhere between Collections and Manifests. We didn't see any wireframes that specifically show MVWs. Is the "Catalog" view the way that MVWs will be supported?

[jvine]

Shaun, how are MVWs represented in the manifest? Is there something that would let us distinguish between a MVW and a collection? In the examples I've seen, the volumes are just individual manifests in a collection manifest. I'm working on collections in the design right now - I don't expect that Catalog will be the only place they are supported; I'm working on how the parent collection and sibling items might be available directly from the manifest window. Do you have MVW examples I can look at?

[sdellis]

@jvine we have two different scenarios. One is a typical MVW that you describe, and here's an example manifest. I think these would be fine in the collection display, but in many cases, users would like to view the Table of Contents of all the volumes in a single place. I will have some examples to share for tomorrow's call. The other type of MVW is a Sammelband. This is a mixture of Canvases and Manifests. I can't seem to track down an example manifest at the moment, but will find one for tomorrow's call and ask one of my colleagues to follow up here.

[sdellis]

Hmm... I just realized that we flatten Sammelbands (many are MVWs that were bound later) into a single volume because we aren't quite sure how best to model them in IIIF. There is a Cookbook placeholder, but nothing there yet.

[sdellis]

Here is an example of a Multi-Volume Work in our catalog. We like how the UV displays this, but the current Mirador breaks on MVWs.

Our suggestion is that Mirador 3 render any Collection that has viewingHint: multi-part (v2) or behavior: multi-part (v3) the same way it renders Manifests. The ToC/index would allow users to browse all volumes and their respective tables of contents in the same Window.

[camillevilla]

Further work and discussion in:
ProjectMirador/mirador#2598