# IIIF Interactive Transcript - Parliamentary Debates

One of the demos on Day 1 of BBCTextAV was the BBC's FastForward, which synchronises scrubbing of video with the text transcript (navigating through either video or text changes your position in the other).

{% embed url="<https://youtu.be/QIdPk7BX_Fc>" %}

This would be useful functionality to have available for [IIIF](https://iiif.io/api/presentation/3.0/) AV content, where the text transcript comprises textual annotations on the time dimension of the canvas. So we decided to build a proof of concept viewer.&#x20;

We had access to metadata for \~3500 German parliamentary debates. We transformed this metadata to IIIF Manifests, ending up with one [Manifest](https://iiif.io/api/presentation/3.0/#52-manifest) per debate, each with one [Canvas](https://iiif.io/api/presentation/3.0/#53-canvas) representing the duration of the debate, annotated with a video file to provide the AV content. Other sources of textual data were available, but for this MVP we used the WEBVTT files as source for the transcripts.&#x20;

Sample Manifest:

<https://tomcrane.github.io/bbctextav/iiif/ID191002001.json>

This links to an annotation list for the text content:

<https://tomcrane.github.io/bbctextav/iiif/ID191002001-transcript.json>

The parliamentary source data is hacked into IIIF here: <https://github.com/tomcrane/bbctextav/blob/master/converter/make_iiif.py>

We produce a IIIF Collection of the manifests, so the viewer software knows what's available:\
<https://tomcrane.github.io/bbctextav/iiif/collection.json>

The manifests are then shown using this viewer:

<https://openhypervideo.github.io/iiif-interactive-transcript/>&#x20;

![https://openhypervideo.github.io/iiif-interactive-transcript/](https://996422366-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LMm45d5sVj-bvB-u99z%2F-LMr-OUCjbbP2feQx536%2F-LMr2esZ-maCivU8_iuN%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=7f27753a-ac2a-4af3-b240-e5f324992ab3)

## **Team**

* Joscha Jaeger
* Tom Crane