Colleagues,

 

The next IIIF Archives Community Group call will be on Tuesday, 12 April 2022 at 9 AM PDT / 12 PM EDT / 17:00 UTC / 18:00 CEST. We’ll be joined by Jane Stevenson from Jisc.

 

Enabling IIIF on behalf of the community: the power and the pitfalls from an archival aggregator's point of view

 

Summary:  The Archives Hub has brought together descriptions of UK archives for over 20 years, and currently works with over 350 contributing institutions. We have developed specialist expertise in data processing, interoperability and discoverability.  Is there a role for an aggregator like the Hub in enabling IIIF?  Or are the challenges of working with so many contributors too problematic?  This presentation will give an overview of the Archives Hub and our current 'Labs' project, which is looking at both IIIF and Machine Learning, and will raise some of the questions we are currently asking ourselves about engaging with IIIF. 

 

As always, the IIIF Archives Community Group is looking for potential demos or presentations related to IIIF and archives of 10-15 minutes each. Please don't hesitate to let us know should you be interested and willing to present or demo something on this or a future call.

 

Connection details: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/97950308605?pwd=MUl6dDFqSkhOWkY5b2FjalhSVHI5Zz09
To join via phone: https://zoom.us/u/X6CTDOPc  - Enter Meeting ID: 97950308605; Password: 862574

Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p6jsqCdG3WjPAZAqPagkQ9F17la6E7BB2J8HQ2pQGLU/edit

 

About the IIIF Archives Community Group: The IIIF Archives Community Group (https://iiif.io/community/groups/archives/) focuses on setting best practices for using IIIF with archival material, and collaborates internationally regarding promotion and demonstration of use, exploration of possibilities and documentation of use cases and requirements, and communication between the IIIF community and allied professional communities.

 

About IIIF: The International Image Interoperability Framework (http://iiif.io), or IIIF, represents an effort by a growing community of LAMs and image repositories to collaboratively produce an interoperable technology and community framework for image delivery of materials in any format (including photographs, digitized manuscripts and archival materials, born-digital records, audio/video, and more) in standards-compliant ways that encourage their adaptability and reuse across a variety of contexts. Enabling access to archival materials through IIIF offers exciting opportunities for collaborative cross-institution storytelling, crowdsourcing, display of hierarchically described digital archival collections, and even enabling researchers to recreate dispersed collections and create new collections based on specific research questions.

 

On behalf of the chairs (myself and Alison Harvey, Cardiff University),
Mark