The Life of the Buddha uses Mirador, an image viewer that combines digital tools to display data, connect data, and enable interaction throughout this project. Yale’s improvements are what allows for the text inside images seen throughout the entire project.
This site is used to create LOTB project in multiple ways:
- Zoomable image viewer that allows users to examine detailed mural images closely
- Users can zoom into murals
- Explore small visual details
- Focus on specific scenes
- A system that connects sections of text directly to parts of images through Yale’s improvements to Mirador
- Yale creates forks and extensions of Mirador, which acts as a bridge between the Mirador application and what Yale calls “Yale-Mirador”
- Used to store their information and create the annotations seen in LOTB
- Yale creates forks and extensions of Mirador, which acts as a bridge between the Mirador application and what Yale calls “Yale-Mirador”
Other uses outside of the project:
- Museums displaying artwork online
- Archives preserving manuscripts or artifacts
- Any platform requiring detailed visual inspection
- Digital textbooks
- Interactive storytelling platforms
- Online archives linking documents and visuals
This tool, which is used throughout the project and can be applied outside, follows DH goals through the support of closely reading visual data, a key DH practice where users analyze details digitally. Additionally, this connects to DH because it represents a multimodal project. The technology documentation follows DH best practices perfectly. Users are able to see how Yale worked with Mirador step by step, with clear links to their processes.