Nyingarn Platform ​

The Nyingarn Platform consists of a Workspace and Repository to make manuscript sources of Australian Indigenous Languages available as searchable and reusable text documents to support language revitalisation.

About ​

The workspace enables users to:

• create items representing a manuscript or part of a manuscript;
• upload images of each manuscript page for automated text extraction using AWS Textract;
• supports multi file upload using the TUS upload protocol direct to S3;
• upload pre created manuscript transcriptions as Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) documents or from DigiVol;
• edit the transcriptions using a GUI TEI editor;
• automate the processing of input images into thumbnails and web formats;
• write detailed JSON-LD metadata using the embeddable describo editor.

The repository enables user to:

• find content by searching by language, content and location;
• view manuscript metadata;
• view manuscript images.

Technology ​

• The Nyingarn Workspace and Repository applications are VueJS SPAs with a shared NodeJS/Fastify API backend.
• Nyingarn uses the Describo VueJS Component as the metadata editor.
• The API container is designed to be horizontally scalable by submitting processing jobs to a Rabbit Message Queue.
• The Task runner container is also a NodeJS application that connects to the queue directly and processes jobs sequentially in a FIFO fashion. This container is also horizontally scalable.
• https://github.com/CoEDL/nyingarn-workspace