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compliant DTD <strong>and</strong> schema. 393 It was decided that TEI not <strong>on</strong>ly supported all the requirements of<br />
manuscript descripti<strong>on</strong> but also provided a comm<strong>on</strong> format for structural mapp<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g <strong>and</strong> would be able<br />
to accommodate all <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>com<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g levels of manuscript granularity. All exist<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g documents <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> the digital<br />
library thus had to be migrated from the orig<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>al masterx.dtd to the new <strong>on</strong>e created, <strong>and</strong> all documents<br />
that are harvested or added directly must c<strong>on</strong>form to it as well.<br />
The basic image-access format used with<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> Manuscriptorium is JPEG, but it also supports GIF <strong>and</strong><br />
PNG. N<strong>on</strong>etheless, <strong>on</strong>e major challenge <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> data <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>tegrati<strong>on</strong>, Knoll et al. reported, was that many<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>dividual libraries chose to provide access to images of their manuscripts through multipage image<br />
files such as PDF or DjVu rather than through XML-based structural mapp<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g. S<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>ce this k<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>d of<br />
access did not support the manipulati<strong>on</strong> of manuscript pages as <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>dividual digital objects, all<br />
participat<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g libraries were required to c<strong>on</strong>vert such files <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>to <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>dividual JPEG images for each<br />
manuscript page. As Knoll et al. expla<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>ed:<br />
The goal of Manuscriptorium is to use its own <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>terface for representati<strong>on</strong> of any document<br />
from any partner digital library or repository. Thus, the central database must c<strong>on</strong>ta<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> not <strong>on</strong>ly<br />
descripti<strong>on</strong>s of such documents—manuscripts or rare old pr<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>ts—but also their structural maps<br />
with references (<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>dividual URLs) to c<strong>on</strong>crete image files. As the users wishes to c<strong>on</strong>sult the<br />
c<strong>on</strong>crete files, they are called <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>to the uniform Manuscriptorium viewer from anywhere they are<br />
so that the user enjoys seamless access without navigat<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g to remote digital libraries or<br />
presentati<strong>on</strong>s (Knoll et al. 2009).<br />
The ability to provide a seamless po<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>t of access to distributed collecti<strong>on</strong>s of digital objects—<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> effect<br />
to create a virtual user experience—was also cited as important by the CLAROS, LaQuAT, <strong>and</strong><br />
TextGrid projects. In the end, an ideal partner for Manuscriptorium, as described by Knoll et al., is <strong>on</strong>e<br />
whose collecti<strong>on</strong> can be harvested by OAI <strong>and</strong> where each manuscript profile c<strong>on</strong>ta<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>s both a<br />
descriptive record <strong>and</strong> a structural map with l<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>ks to any images. While harvest<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g <strong>and</strong> transform<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g<br />
descriptive records was fairly simple, Knoll et al. reported that harvest<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g structural mapp<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>gs was far<br />
more problematic. Two tools have also been created to allow c<strong>on</strong>tent providers to easily create the<br />
structured digital documents required by Manuscriptorium. The first tool, M-Tool, supports both the<br />
manual entry <strong>and</strong> creati<strong>on</strong> of new metadata so it can be used either to create new manuscript records<br />
with<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> Manuscriptorium or to edit exist<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g <strong>on</strong>es for import. The sec<strong>on</strong>d tool, M-Can, was created for<br />
upload<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g <strong>and</strong> evaluat<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g manuscript records (Marek 2009).<br />
One of the most <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>novative features of Manuscriptorium is that it supports the creati<strong>on</strong> of pers<strong>on</strong>al<br />
digital libraries. Users who register (as well as c<strong>on</strong>tent providers) can “build their own virtual libraries<br />
from the aggregated c<strong>on</strong>tent” <strong>and</strong> thus organize c<strong>on</strong>tent <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>to static pers<strong>on</strong>al collecti<strong>on</strong>s or dynamic<br />
collecti<strong>on</strong>s (based off of a query so the collecti<strong>on</strong> automatically updates based <strong>on</strong> your query terms).<br />
Even more important, users can create “virtual documents” that can be shared with other users. These<br />
documents can be created through the use of the M-Tool applicati<strong>on</strong>. These virtual documents are<br />
particularly <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>terest<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g for they can be composed of parts of different physical documents (<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>dividual<br />
page images from different manuscripts can be saved with notes from the user), <strong>and</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>on</strong>e example<br />
they give, “<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>terest<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>g illum<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>ati<strong>on</strong>s from manuscripts of a certa<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g> period” could be selected <strong>and</strong><br />
“bound” <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>to a new virtual document.” 394 Images from other external URLs can be <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>serted <str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>to these<br />
393 http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ENRICH/ODD/RomaResults/enrich.dtd <strong>and</strong> http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ENRICH/ODD/RomaResults/enrich.xsd<br />
394 For more <strong>on</strong> the creati<strong>on</strong> of pers<strong>on</strong>al collecti<strong>on</strong>s <strong>and</strong> virtual documents, see<br />
http://beta.manuscriptorium.com/apps/ma<str<strong>on</strong>g>in</str<strong>on</strong>g>/docs/mns_20_pdlib_help_eng.pdf