Map Librarian / Artist / Teacher focused on user-centered design, informal learning in GLAM, new uses for old maps, collaborative interdisciplinary problem-solving, and the interplay between technology and culture.

Gallery Builder prototyping with ChatGPT

Adventures in Vibe Coding

After my first chaotic experiment writing code with Chat GPT and publishing it to GitHub pages I regrouped and focused on creating a local version of the app, based on Evan Thornberry’s sage advice.

See my first attempt and hypothetical classroom demo.

This time ChatGPT and I came up with a simpler solution which does not require the use of a server to save and retrieve files, because you just download a JSON file of your gallery once created and upload it to view it again.

This version also creates a combined manifest out of the individual manifests, instead of whatever the last iteration was trying (and failing) to do.

It’s ugly but it works!

Test it out here: IIIF Image Gallery Builder

Things to try:

  • Copy one or more of the manifests below, or add your own in the first field
  • Practice naming, exporting, and uploading your gallery files

Other Thoughts

There is much MUCH more to say about how every single institution is handling basic information like titles, dates, and authors in completely different ways in their manifests. Right now, this can parse manifests from Stanford University Libraries, David Rumsey Map Collection, Digital Commonwealth, Library of Congress, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Perhaps there is some logic at work that I don’t yet understand (is it because of the underlying information management systems?) but I thought the point of the IIIF Framework was consistency.

Sample Individual Manifests

https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:t722qd86g/manifest,
https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:8623r0577/manifest,
https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:d217xv241/manifest,
https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/iiif/m/RUMSEY~8~1~368087~90135375/manifest,
https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/iiif/m/RUMSEY~8~1~281766~90054435/manifest,
https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O70207/manifest.json,
https://www.loc.gov/item/2006629341/manifest.json,
https://purl.stanford.edu/bp830ft1058/iiif/manifest

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