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Creating online jigsaw puzzles from Harvard Digital Collections images

These instructions were adapted from tweets by Emma Stanford on using Bodleian Library IIIF images to create online jigsaw puzzles: https://twitter.com/e_stanf/status/1233102000151126017.

1. Find an image in Harvard Digital Collections: https://library.harvard.edu/digital-collections. Here is an example image, MS Thr 495 (319) from the Harvard Theatre Collection:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/digital_collections/hou01892c00350

2. Click Copy Manifest Link in the Tools & Related Links panel. The link should like this:

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LibraryCloud Item API documentation

Miscellaneous Queries for Houghton Materials

All Houghton EAD finding aid components
https://api.lib.harvard.edu/v2/items?recordIdentifier=hou* OR trc*

Houghton manuscripts (not including OASIS finding aids)
https://api.lib.harvard.edu/v2/items?repository=Houghton OR Theatre&isManuscript=true

Houghton records with DRS (digital repository service) links

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GREL for Library Data

GREL recipes for working with bibliographic and archival data in OpenRefine. This Gist is mostly for my own use but is shared in case other catalogers/library metadataists are puzzling over similar problems. More general recipes are on OpenRefine's Recipes page.

Working with Harvard LibraryCloud Data

Example MODS XML query: https://api.lib.harvard.edu/v2/items?q=goats&repository=Houghton%20OR%20Theatre

Parsing MODS XML

In all examples, value is a column containing individual MODS records (the mods:mods XML element) as rows.