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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +title: Open a specific region of a Canvas in a viewer |
| 3 | +id: 485 |
| 4 | +layout: recipe |
| 5 | +tags: [annotation, content-state] |
| 6 | +summary: "Allows users to use Content State API to open a specific region of a Canvas by means of supported viewers." |
| 7 | +viewers: |
| 8 | +topic: |
| 9 | + - content-state |
| 10 | +--- |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +## Use Case |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +I want to share a link to highlight a detail in a specific region of an image to share a portion of a digitized manuscript text, allowing the user easy access to the rest of the manuscript. |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +Institutions might want to use this recipe to share portions of their object through social media, allowing a direct link to the viewer to improve the user's interaction with the digitized content. A scholar who finds a relevant passage in a manuscript might want to share the precise location with other colleagues, allowing them to check the original source. |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +## Implementation Notes |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +This request can be implemented in a standardized manner using the [IIIF Content State API](https://iiif.io/api/content-state), providing the data as values of the `iiif-content` query string parameter as explained in the [API section](https://iiif.io/api/content-state/1.0/#initialization-mechanisms-link). |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +We can use the [Web Annotation Data Model](https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/) to encode the information necessary, as shown in ["A Region of a Canvas in a Manifest"](https://iiif.io/api/content-state/1.0/#51-a-region-of-a-canvas-in-a-manifest) section of the standard. |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +However, before passing the data as a query parameter, we must encode it as explained in the [Content State encoding guidelines](https://iiif.io/api/content-state/1.0/#6-content-state-encoding). |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +In this example, we want to highlight a portion of an image contained in a book. We will use the following manifest shown in the Simple Manifest Book recipe, which is available at the following link: [https://iiif.io/api/cookbook/recipe/0009-book-1/manifest.json](https://iiif.io/api/cookbook/recipe/0009-book-1/manifest.json) |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | +We want to open the viewport to a specific Canvas region using a viewer available on the following page `https://example.org/viewer`. |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +First, we create an Annotation: |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +```json |
| 33 | +{ |
| 34 | + "@context": "http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json", |
| 35 | + "id": "https://example.org/import/1", |
| 36 | + "type": "Annotation", |
| 37 | + "motivation": ["contentState"], |
| 38 | + "target": { |
| 39 | + "id": "https://iiif.io/api/cookbook/recipe/0009-book-1/canvas/p2#xywh=1528,3024,344,408", |
| 40 | + "type": "Canvas", |
| 41 | + "partOf": [{ |
| 42 | + "id": "https://iiif.io/api/cookbook/recipe/0009-book-1/manifest.json", |
| 43 | + "type": "Manifest" |
| 44 | + }] |
| 45 | + } |
| 46 | +} |
| 47 | +``` |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | +We can create an Annotation with `motivation` set to `contentState` and a target `type` set to Canvas. The `id` of the target will contain a fragment selector (`#xywh=1528,3024,344,408`) with the coordinates of the Canvas we want to share, while the `partOf` element has the `id` of the Manifest containing the Canvas. |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | +We can now use one of the methods listed in the [examples of Content State encoding section](https://iiif.io/api/content-state/1.0/#63-examples-of-content-state-encoding) to generate a base64url string (**note: for brevity, we removed new line characters and white space before computing the base64url**). |
| 52 | + |
| 53 | +We can pass the encoded value, using the `iiif-content` query parameter of the viewer landing page: |
| 54 | +[https://example.org/viewer?iiif-content=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](https://example.org/) |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | +We can also create an anchor tag with the link as the `href` attribute for use in a web page: |
| 57 | + |
| 58 | +```html |
| 59 | +<a href="https://example.org/viewer?iiif-content=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">Link for visualizing the region of a Canvas using a viewer.</a> |
| 60 | +``` |
| 61 | + |
| 62 | +An alternative way of sharing a region of an image is to use the [Image API](https://iiif.io/api/image/3.0/#41-region). However, the context from which the region is extracted is not easily accessible. Instead, sharing a link to open the specific region with a viewer allows the users to explore another part of the image or related content and metadata in the Manifest. |
| 63 | + |
| 64 | +## Restrictions |
| 65 | + |
| 66 | +Note Content State does not define how the viewer should bring the regions of the Canvas to the attention of the user. It only mentions: |
| 67 | + |
| 68 | +"This data structure can be used by clients to load the resource required, present a particular part of the resource to the user." https://iiif.io/api/content-state/1.0/#content-state |
| 69 | + |
| 70 | +Viewers may set the viewport to the region or highlight the region with an annotation. |
| 71 | + |
| 72 | +## Example |
| 73 | + |
| 74 | +In this example we are aiming to highlight the bug that is on the second page of the [Book in recipe][0009]. The part of the image we are highlighting is as follows: |
| 75 | + |
| 76 | + |
| 77 | + |
| 78 | +and this is located in the following region of the second image: |
| 79 | + |
| 80 | + |
| 81 | + |
| 82 | +{% include content-state-viewers.html iiif-content="annotation.json" viewers="" %} |
| 83 | + |
| 84 | +{% include jsonviewer.html src="annotation.json" %} |
| 85 | + |
| 86 | +## Related Recipes |
| 87 | + |
| 88 | +* [Simplest Manifest - Image][0001] shows the basic structure of a IIIF Manifest using Presentation API 3.0. |
| 89 | +* [A simple book][0009] shows the manifest structure. |
| 90 | +* [Link for loading a manifest][0466] another example of Content State API. |
| 91 | +* [Addressing a Spatial Region][0299] an example of sharing a region of a Canvas creating a new Manifest. |
| 92 | + |
| 93 | +{% include acronyms.md %} |
| 94 | +{% include links.md %} |
| 95 | + |
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