Cultural Japan

I Created an API That Returns a List of Items Containing a Specified IIIF Manifest in Cultural Japan

I created an API that returns a list of items containing a specified IIIF manifest in Cultural Japan. The API documentation is available at the following link. https://petstore.swagger.io/?url=https://api.cultural.jp/v3/api-docs Here is an example request. https://api.cultural.jp/v3/items/urls?manifest=https://iiif.harvardartmuseums.org/manifests/object/215190 For the API development, I used express-openapi and deployed it using AWS Lambda, referencing the following article. https://www.forcia.com/blog/002471.html I hope this serves as a useful reference for utilizing Cultural Japan.

September 20, 2022 · Updated: September 20, 2022 · 1 min · Nakamura

[App Introduction] Introducing IIIF pocket

This article introduces “IIIF Pocket,” an application developed as part of the Cultural Japan project. pocket.cultural.jp The documentation for this application is available in the following Google Document: docs.google.com We hope this is helpful for managing and utilizing IIIF resources.

July 24, 2021 · 1 min · Nakamura

Introduction to the IIIF Collection of IIIF Manifests Aggregated by Cultural Japan

You can view the IIIF Collection that aggregates the IIIF manifests gathered by Cultural Japan at the following link: https://www.kanzaki.com/works/2016/pub/image-annotator?u=https://app.cultural.jp/iiif-collection/collection.json Please check the terms of use for each source database when using the individual IIIF manifests. This collection includes IIIF manifests dynamically generated by Cultural Japan. In the collection list above, these can be identified by the label “Dynamically Generated.” The dynamic generation uses AWS Lambda, querying the Japan Search RDF Store and the Cultural Japan RDF Store for each request to generate JSON data. The condition for creating these dynamically generated IIIF manifests is that the items must have high-resolution images (jps:accessInfo/schema:associatedMedia). ...

July 23, 2021 · 1 min · Nakamura