Practical applications of IIIF as a building block towards a digital National Collection
Lead Research Organisation:
National Gallery
Department Name: Scientific Department
Abstract
Even more than text, images are critical in engaging (digital) audiences with cultural heritage, to illustrate stories, present collections, explore old manuscripts and documents, or illuminate colourful parts of our history. Presenting or sharing small groups of images is technologically straightforward, but as the quality, size and quantity of images increase, implementation and delivery rapidly becomes more complicated. For example, it can be problematic and costly to download gigabyte-sized images on a mobile network. The complexity increases as users combine images from different institutions or countries. There are also many IPR and technological concerns when memory institutions are asked to provide high resolution copies of their images for collaborative projects. The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) continues to be developed to help solve these and many more issues. It provides a standard framework for institutions to present their own content in a consistent, trackable manner, using freely available software. IIIF resources from multiple institutions can be virtually combined (without sending images to each other) to provide shared presentations, allowing users to explore huge zoomable images on different devices without needing to copy or download whole images. However, though well described, setting up and re-using IIIF resources can still be complex, particularly for smaller institutions or individual researchers. In addition, better understanding of how to deploy IIIF to combine virtual collections across institutions and how to support more diverse audiences is needed. This research project will assess current use of IIIF systems across the sector and gather requirements and ambitions for further development via a series of targeted workshops and surveys. These will be used to produce a landscape report and to inform the design and development of a small selection of working IIIF technology pilot demonstrations. A: Working with and presenting datasets and research outputs from different institutions, focusing on resources created within a separate ongoing research project on Tudor/Jacobean portraits. B: Examining how IIIF resources can be used as supplementary information to support and enrich online publications or exhibitions. C: Demonstrating how individual non-technical researchers can create new aggregated IIIF presentations based on existing resources (overcoming a significant barrier to its adoption). This work will involve specific user analysis, with different potential use communities, in order to feed user needs and feedback into the resulting report. The project will also explore what new IIIF tools/services are needed in the sector and how they might be created, used and maintained. An important premise is to involve both tech and non tech people, to develop use cases as well as defining tools.
Workshops
1: Showcase and discuss current best practice. Explore how IIIF resources are currently used for research and public engagement (and by whom), identify available resources/tools, and how people would like to use these in the future.
2: Discuss the potential of shared IIIF services. Explore what IIIF related services are available or could be useful/required for institutions or researchers new to IIIF to present public/private images via IIIF, considering shared image repositories, improved image servers, training & knowledge requirements etc.
3: Developing practical IIIF solutions. A practical workshop and discussion designed to create working examples of aggregating, using and presenting IIIF resources, and develop use cases showing how end users can exploit these tools.
4: Towards a National Collection: Developing a road map for the future. A shared workshop bringing together work from the proposed PID and Linked data projects and others, to develop a clear proposal of how the outcomes of these might be used in developing and maintaining a digital National Collection
Workshops
1: Showcase and discuss current best practice. Explore how IIIF resources are currently used for research and public engagement (and by whom), identify available resources/tools, and how people would like to use these in the future.
2: Discuss the potential of shared IIIF services. Explore what IIIF related services are available or could be useful/required for institutions or researchers new to IIIF to present public/private images via IIIF, considering shared image repositories, improved image servers, training & knowledge requirements etc.
3: Developing practical IIIF solutions. A practical workshop and discussion designed to create working examples of aggregating, using and presenting IIIF resources, and develop use cases showing how end users can exploit these tools.
4: Towards a National Collection: Developing a road map for the future. A shared workshop bringing together work from the proposed PID and Linked data projects and others, to develop a clear proposal of how the outcomes of these might be used in developing and maintaining a digital National Collection
Planned Impact
Organising access to structured standardised image servers to provide dynamic connections to the wealth of our National collections will be of interest to many, from IROs and HEIs, to individual researchers exploring our collections. This project will directly impact on the researchers involved and will contribute to wider adoption of IIIF, helping to provide guidance on how it can be used on a day to day basis.
Direct beneficiaries:
IIIF has been designed and developed to help present, share and combine image resources across the web. However, the first beneficiary of adopting the project recommendations will be the individual institutions involved, making it immediately easier for staff to access and re-use their own images; for publication, documentation, collection management, research and public engagement. Also, the ability to store high resolution images once and then make use of them multiple times immediately improves efficiency, fosters collaboration and minimises costs and duplication of effort. In addition to these internal benefits the use of the IIIF, linked to robust PIDs and open metadata, allows the option to virtually connect collections together, to carry out new research and present new stories.This also relates to other institutions who begin to adopt IIIF.
Collection Professionals: Through involvement in project workshops, or through the project final report, collection professionals will be able to make the case for organisational implementation of the IIIF and to contribute to defining which tools and services they need to document and share their work, explore complex conservation and scientific images, plan exhibitions, organise publications, or even create well illustrated blogs for institutional websites. More broadly the work will allow them to better manage and control the availability of these images for reuse.
Institutional IT staff: With the guidelines and reports produced in the project , IT staff will have resources for building business cases for adoption of the IIIF and its long term use, ensuring that it can become an integral part of institutional activities rather than a novel additional option. They will also make it easier for IT managers to understand the skill sets required to maintain IIIF systems and determine whether it is appropriate to provide in-house resources or opt for external services.
IIIF Service Providers and System vendors, providing and supporting IIIF systems and services will be able to use the recommendations to better organise and tailor their tools and services to heritage-based users. The recommendations will also highlight what new tools and services will be needed going forward and help justify the addition of the IIIF tools to existing systems.
Indirect beneficiaries:
Funding organisations (inc. DCMS): With wider implementation of IIIF, those providing funding for the collection and curation of national collections can be provided with clear recommendations on how new projects can add to and contribute to a growing interconnected web of image resources. This ensures greater value from future research projects, allowing developments to move the whole field forward. It also contributes to the DCMS 'Culture is Digital' initiative's aims.
A researcher using national collections will be able to quickly draw together images directly from multiple hosting institutions, complete with clear metadata and re-use licences. New tools will them allow them to work with and interrogate these image resources to carry out and present their research.
Others represented in national collections: Communities and peoples with a historic connection to collections and the items they contain will be able to link their voices and interpretations to institutional resources. By tracking the dynamic use of their image collections holders will also benefit by learning who is engaging with their collections and potentially draw in new knowledge from these diverse perspectives.
Direct beneficiaries:
IIIF has been designed and developed to help present, share and combine image resources across the web. However, the first beneficiary of adopting the project recommendations will be the individual institutions involved, making it immediately easier for staff to access and re-use their own images; for publication, documentation, collection management, research and public engagement. Also, the ability to store high resolution images once and then make use of them multiple times immediately improves efficiency, fosters collaboration and minimises costs and duplication of effort. In addition to these internal benefits the use of the IIIF, linked to robust PIDs and open metadata, allows the option to virtually connect collections together, to carry out new research and present new stories.This also relates to other institutions who begin to adopt IIIF.
Collection Professionals: Through involvement in project workshops, or through the project final report, collection professionals will be able to make the case for organisational implementation of the IIIF and to contribute to defining which tools and services they need to document and share their work, explore complex conservation and scientific images, plan exhibitions, organise publications, or even create well illustrated blogs for institutional websites. More broadly the work will allow them to better manage and control the availability of these images for reuse.
Institutional IT staff: With the guidelines and reports produced in the project , IT staff will have resources for building business cases for adoption of the IIIF and its long term use, ensuring that it can become an integral part of institutional activities rather than a novel additional option. They will also make it easier for IT managers to understand the skill sets required to maintain IIIF systems and determine whether it is appropriate to provide in-house resources or opt for external services.
IIIF Service Providers and System vendors, providing and supporting IIIF systems and services will be able to use the recommendations to better organise and tailor their tools and services to heritage-based users. The recommendations will also highlight what new tools and services will be needed going forward and help justify the addition of the IIIF tools to existing systems.
Indirect beneficiaries:
Funding organisations (inc. DCMS): With wider implementation of IIIF, those providing funding for the collection and curation of national collections can be provided with clear recommendations on how new projects can add to and contribute to a growing interconnected web of image resources. This ensures greater value from future research projects, allowing developments to move the whole field forward. It also contributes to the DCMS 'Culture is Digital' initiative's aims.
A researcher using national collections will be able to quickly draw together images directly from multiple hosting institutions, complete with clear metadata and re-use licences. New tools will them allow them to work with and interrogate these image resources to carry out and present their research.
Others represented in national collections: Communities and peoples with a historic connection to collections and the items they contain will be able to link their voices and interpretations to institutional resources. By tracking the dynamic use of their image collections holders will also benefit by learning who is engaging with their collections and potentially draw in new knowledge from these diverse perspectives.
Organisations
| Description | March 2023 submission: The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) is an open standard designed to provide a robust, efficient and sustainable approach to presenting and re-using digital images (and A/V) within simple websites and more complex web based tools and services. This project has successfully demonstrated how IIIF can be exploited by a wide range of users, with various levels of technical experience, and that there are a number of accessible opportunities for personal or guided training where required. The project has developed or highlighted a range of new and existing tools and resources which continue to be exploited within the field, along with supporting ongoing IIIF development work and advocacy with the Heritage community. The final project report (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.688488) also details a series of recommendations to the funded programme and the wider community relating to the further exploitation of IIIF based solutions, which underline that IIIF is a very useful flexible approach that can efficiently support the presentation of Heritage resources and is a key component to being able to manage and organise any form of federated national aggregation of image resources. March 2022 submission: Some of the key technological and evaluation findings are still being finalised and will be reported after the completion of the project, but a few additional direct outputs can be reported at this stage. The Simple IIIF Discovery system (https://research.ng-london.org.uk/ss-iiif/) described in other parts of this submission, goes beyond a simple tool to provide access to images resources and has highlighted the benefit of simple practical solutions for interoperability. The full consistent applications of technological standards can lead to improved rich solutions, but this system, shows that it is also possible to achieved improved access with simple keyword based searching, highlighting the benefits of cross collection searches. There are obvious limitations to this approach, but this initial steps has helped users to visualise the potential of more integrated systems and potentially help justify the need for further work in this area. This work has also stimulated further discussions to explore how a similar process could be used across multiple languages, using basic translation tools, but this will need to be the focus of future research activities. In addition to the public outputs of the work, the research activities have also developed the internal use of IIIF among some of the project partners. For example the National Gallery has updated some of its internal IIIF solutions to more fully integrate images with collection information. It has been shown that IIIF provides a rich range of efficient solutions for sharing a re-using media, and these opportunities continue to be developed and will be the subject of future research. However, the project has also helped underline that IIIF's simple message that, it is easier, cheaper and more sustainable to share rich media using a free open standard, supported by free and open tools. Although restricted and delayed by COVID, with the provided extension the project still on target to meet he award objectives and the outputs of the work are already being incorporated into new and developing institutional working practice. March 2021 submission: Early work within this project has contributed to the understanding of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) standard, specifically across the TaNC programme but also among the wider cultural heritage community. It has also been demonstrated and documented that it is possible for individual researchers to start to make use of high resolution images published using the IIIF standard as part of new public web presentations making use of freely available web services, examples of this work can be seen at: https://jpadfield.github.io/simple-site/ and https://github.com/jpadfield/iiif-zenodo |
| Exploitation Route | March 2023 submission: The IIIF tools, services and solutions developed or explored within this project are all open source and available for further development or exploitation. The final project report (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.688488) includes details a links to these resources. Many aspects of IIIF can be used and re-used now, but as noted before wider more national implementation of IIIF will require further the development of the current related UK digital infrastructure. Some of this work is currently being planned and it is hoped that the published recommendations of this project will help to inform this process. March 2022 submission: Further details will be provided after the completion of the project, but the work of this project is already being taken forward through the developments of institutional practice and community driven activities. However, it has become clear that for many, full exploitation of the potential of IIIF on a National level is likely to require related infrastructure development and further focused research activities. It has also become clear that some of this research will need to focus directly on user engagement and user focused design, along with the development of further worked examples and examples of best-practice of how users can implement IIIF, from individual researchers to world class collections. These activities do continue as part of the in-kind contributions made by many to the IIIF consortium, but these actives can be slow with out the support of funded research projects. March 2021 submission: We hope that the initial activities and increased awareness of the IIIF standard across the TaNC Programme will contribute to the application of IIIF within the forthcoming second phase projects. As this project is still active we are continuing to carry out the research outlined in the project and the outputs of all of our activities will be made available for other to study and exploit. |
| Sectors | Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| URL | https://tanc-ahrc.github.io/IIIF-TNC/ |
| Description | March 2023 submission: The project ended in April 2022 just after the last submission, since then activities relating to the project have been limited to the publication of the webinar resources for the final project webinar, the publication of the final project report, continued development of some of the software created or used in the project and a number of presentations in which the work of the project was presented. The final report detailed the work of the project in full, including details and links relating to all of the project webinars and demonstrators. Work relating to the activities of the project have been absorbed into more day-today activities as well as some forms of ongoing research, within the various institutions involved. The final report included a series of clear recommendations which will help direct the ongoing activities of the Towards a National Collection programme. March 2022 submission: Beyond the planned tools and solutions research and development work, a strong component of the work carried out in this project has related to advocacy, researching or developing practical applications of IIIF and communicating them to the wider community. Much of this work was originally planned as a series of workshops, to bringing specialist together to demonstrate and discuss IIIF based solutions, however as a result of the COVID pandemic these events needed to be moved online, this actually had a very positive effect. The physical events would have been limited in size based on the related costs and generally restricted to participants for larger or local institutions. However, the virtual events where open to the UK as a whole and a good number of international participants. Overall direct participation in the virtual events so far has been almost 10 time the expected number and this impact has been further increased by recording the events and making all of the material accessible via Youtube, for quick access, and Zenodo, for more robust sustainable FAIR access. The collaboration with Data Futures, to help present IIIF resources for one of the project partners has allowed the project to move beyond the original plan of demonstrating the benefits of IIIF, to actually creating a fully functioning pilot of a IIIF enabled data repository. This work has directly impacted the understanding of the potential of sustainable data repositories to the related project partners, but also demonstrated how Heritage research can collaborate and exploit the developments within more main stream data science. This work has also has an influence on plans for future UK and EU based Heritage research in this area. Activities in the project stimulated the development of a Zenodo IIIF community (maintained by the full IIIF Community) the help improve the find-ability of IIIF research for all users. The impact of the project survey related work and the and the additional development work will be reported, after their completion, at the end of the project, in a few months time, and will be added to ResearchFish at a later date. March 2021 submission: Although the bulk of the project work has been heavily delayed, due to COVID related issues, it has still been possible to identify some impact from initial activities. The work with the Simple Site system (https://jpadfield.github.io/simple-site/) helped setup a GitHub "Organizations" for the wider TaNC programme (https://github.com/tanc-ahrc) and helped five other Foundation projects to set up their initial project websites. The initial project presentations have helped to raise awareness of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF - https://iiif.io/) and this has led to further discussions relating to the use and development of IIIF, within this project, and as part of future research opportunities, principally the development of a related TaNC Discovery project proposal which progressed into the second full proposal stage. Initial work has also identified additional IIIF tools which have the potential to enhance how the IRO project partners present collections images and use IIIF for future public engagement. Work with the project will explore and test the potential of these tools and demonstrate how they can be integrated into future institutional research and public engagement activities. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2020 |
| Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural |
| Title | Tudor Paintings Research Project - InvenioRDM Repository Pilot |
| Description | The National Portrait Gallery holds the largest public collection of Tudor and Jacobean period paintings, which is one of the most significant resources for the understanding of visual culture in the English Renaissance. The Gallery has undertaken a major research project-transforming understanding of early painting practice and the production of portraits in the Tudor and Jacobean periods-and a sample of the research results using a range of scientific techniques, including as x-radiography and infrared reflectography, are now available in this pilot research data repository. State-of-the-art technologies have been used to make this research widely accessible, and collaboration with the hasdai partnership with CERN guarantees that the results are preservable in the long-term at low cost. CERN is one of the world's largest and most respected centres for scientific research and it manages Zenodo, the global catch-all repository for scientific research, on behalf of OpenAIRE. |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This work has provided a worked example of how Heritage Science Technical examination can be archived and presented within a public state-of-the-art data repository, it is being used as an example to influence future plans for storage and publication of this type of data across some UK, EU and Global initiatives. It is also the basis of future planned research in this area. |
| URL | https://tudor-portraits.npg.hasdai.org/ |
| Title | Simple IIIF Discovery |
| Description | This code demonstrates generic public examples of a Simple IIIF Discovery system, based on tools used within the National Gallery to provide access to images from multiple institutions and present them together in IIIF compatible viewers. The system is based on a website requesting the details of IIIF images from a Simple IIIF Discovery end-point, based on a simple keyword search. The website does not need to understand the complexities of any underlying APIs, just the simple structure of the results returned by the end-point. The website then just needs to be able to reformat the IIIF results and feed them into a IIIF based viewer of choice. This version includes a number of updates to the original demonstrator related to improving the user interface, including adding a toggle option to jump between IIIF viewers, and updating the administration process of creating new end-points and related web-pages, this is all achieved via a simple JSON config files now. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Discussions are underway to explore how this software might be extended to provide improved access to non-English collections, The code has also been used as the basis of new developments in the use of IIIF for digital documentation purposes within the National Gallery. It has been discussed within subsequent IIIF meetings and how it relates to ongoing developments of the standard. |
| URL | https://research.ng-london.org.uk/ss-iiif/ |
| Title | Simple IIIF Discovery |
| Description | This code demonstrates generic public examples of a Simple IIIF Discovery system, based on tools used within the National Gallery to provide access to images from multiple institutions and present them together in IIIF compatible viewers. The system is based on a website requesting the details of IIIF images from a Simple IIIF Discovery end-point, based on a simple keyword search. The website does not need to understand the complexities of any underlying APIs, just the simple structure of the results returned by the end-point. The website then just needs to be able to reformat the IIIF results and feed them into a IIIF based viewer of choice. This version includes a number of updates to the original demonstrator related to improving the user interface, including adding a toggle option to jump between IIIF viewers, and updating the administration process of creating new end-points and related web-pages, this is all achieved via a simple JSON config files now. A working demo of this system can be seen at: https://research.ng-london.org.uk/ss-iiif |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | The software acts as a demonstrator of how access to large IIIF images sets can be made simpler - the processes used are also influencing the ongoing development of IIIF application within the National Gallery |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/5512980 |
| Title | Simple Site V1.7 |
| Description | This is a simple set of processes for creating a standard set of webpages based on a simple set of json files. This project is intended to work along side other projects to provide a simple way of creating a set of consistent webpages, which can be delivered as part of your own GitHub project using GitHub pages. It has been extended to allow more complex features such as presenting IIIIF (https://iiif.io) viewers, Timelines, and ordered Lists & Galleries. Various updates to the related JavaScript libraries have been added along with an option to use the whole system to create dynamic as well as static websites. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | This work has been directly supported by the needs of four research projects, along with the main Towards a National Collection Programme (https://github.com/tanc-ahrc) to create project website for a further four TaNC foundation projects. 1: (This project) AHRC (AH/T011084/1) Practical applications of IIIF as a building block towards a digital National Collection - https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT011084%2F1 AHRC (AH/T011092/1) 2: Persistent Identifiers as IRO Infrastructure - https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT011092%2F1 3: ARTICT | Art Through the ICT Lens: Big Data Processing Tools to Support the Technical Study, Preservation and Conservation of Old Master Paintings (EP/R032785/1) - https://art-ict.github.io/artict/ 4: SSHOC - Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud (823782) - https://sshopencloud.eu/ |
| URL | https://jpadfield.github.io/simple-site/ |
| Title | Simple-site |
| Description | This is a simple set of processes for creating a standard set of webpages based on a simple set of json files. This project is intended to work along side other projects to provide a simple way of creating a set of consistent webpages, which can be delivered as part of your own GitHub project using GitHub pages. It has been extended to allow more complex features such as presenting IIIIF (https://iiif.io) viewers, Timelines, and ordered Lists & Galleries. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | This work has been directly supported by the needs of four research projects, along with the main Towards a National Collection Programme (https://github.com/tanc-ahrc) to create project website for a further four TaNC foundation projects. 1: (This project) AHRC (AH/T011084/1) Practical applications of IIIF as a building block towards a digital National Collection - https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT011084%2F1 AHRC (AH/T011092/1) 2: Persistent Identifiers as IRO Infrastructure - https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT011092%2F1 3: ARTICT | Art Through the ICT Lens: Big Data Processing Tools to Support the Technical Study, Preservation and Conservation of Old Master Paintings (EP/R032785/1) - https://art-ict.github.io/artict/ 4: SSHOC - Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud (823782) - https://sshopencloud.eu/ |
| URL | https://jpadfield.github.io/simple-site/ |
| Title | iiif-zenodo |
| Description | This is a quick experiment in how one can automatically generate a IIIF (https://iiif.io/) manifest for images stored on Zenodo. It has worked for a few tested examples but only as an initial proof of concept and has not had any detailed error managment added in. A working example of the code has been setup at: https://cima.ng-london.org.uk/zenodo/ - if a Zenodo ID, for an image, is added to the end of the URL, such as: https://cima.ng-london.org.uk/zenodo/3758523 a simple image manifest will be returned. See: example manifest - https://github.com/jpadfield/iiif-zenodo/blob/main/example-manifest.json The manifest can be loaded into any public IIIF viewer such as: * https://mirador-dev.netlify.app/__tests__/integration/mirador/ * https://jpadfield.github.io/simple-mirador/Standard%20Example.html |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | This experiment initiated discussions with Zenodo about their plans for IIIF - future discussions are anticipated. |
| URL | https://cima.ng-london.org.uk/zenodo/ |
| Title | jpadfield/simple-site: Simple Site v1.6 |
| Description | Added new options to improve stability of external links - aliases can now be used to ensure old links will still work when webpage names need to be updated, also to minimise the need for changing page names a displayName option has been added in to allow the names of pages in menus and links to be different from the actual html page name. Additional updates have been added to improve the display of page code, when needed. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Added new options to improve stability of external links - aliases can now be used to ensure old links will still work when webpage names need to be updated, also to minimise the need for changing page names a displayName option has been added in to allow the names of pages in menus and links to be different from the actual html page name. Additional updates have been added to improve the display of page code, when needed. |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/4687028 |
| Description | 2021 IIIF Fall Working Meeting - Simple IIIF Discovery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | As part of the 2021 IIIF Fall Working meeting the Simple IIIF Discovery System (https://research.ng-london.org.uk/ss-iiif/) was presented as a lighting talk. The Simple IIIF Discovery system was originally developed to provide a way to access the images that are stored within multiple, distinct databases within the National Gallery, as well as provide a way to check new scientific and photographic images before they are formally accessioned. The system works by preforming a simple keyword search across an institutional endpoint, and returning the results in a IIIF compatible viewer. As many institutions provide public access to their endpoints, the system is easily adapted to perform keyword searches across collections outside of those belonging to the National Gallery. Currently the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, The National Gallery, The National Gallery of Art, The Smithsonian Institution, Statens Museum for Kunst, The Victoria & Albert Museum and Wellcome Collection. are all searchable via this demonstration site for the Simple IIIF Discovery system. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/2SVJW4TZa20?t=550 |
| Description | 2022 IIIF Annual Online Meeting - UK Regional Event - Practical applications of IIIF as a building block towards a digital National Collection |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | As part of the "2022 IIIF Annual Online Meeting - UK Regional Event" the work of the project was presented to an international audience in the context of other UK IIIF related activities. The general discussion about the work and the technology in general was productive. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://iiif.io/event/2022/online-meeting/ |
| Description | Book Historian's Digital Tool-Kit: IIIF and Working with Images |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | As part of the annual London Rare Book School, I organised a day of teaching focused around the introduction to the IIIF specification, editing images, annotating content, displaying results and establishing web platforms for collaborative working. The final exercise gave registrees the option to test the first of the demonstrators produced by the project, generating useful feedback and informing later choices regarding design and functionality. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://talkinghumanities.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/09/28/developing-a-digital-tool-kit-for-book-history-... |
| Description | CFPR Seminar: Simple-Site - Practical applications of IIIF as a building block towards a digital National Collection |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The National Gallery has has a long term research relationship with the Centre for Fine Print Research (UWE) and our project was invited to give a presentation to the students and staff as part of their regular internal seminar series. The purpose was to introduce the IIIF to the students so that they could explore how it might be used within their own work. The talk was well received and has led to further discussions about the use of image, 3D modeling and IIIF, and possible research opertunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://cfpr.uwe.ac.uk/digital-national-collection/ |
| Description | Collaborative Webinar: Persistent Identifiers in IIIF |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Designed as a seminar to discuss the opportunities and challenges associated with embedding Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) in IIIF resources, this seminar brought together experts in both fields to discuss the potentials for wider implementation of PIDs within the IIIF Framework. The emergence of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) has presented researchers with an opportunity to annotate and cite digitised or digital resources. However, many of the creative and scholarly uses of IIIF are stymied by an inability to reliably and persistently link to objects or collections of objects. Persistent identifiers are long lasting, digital references to resources, whether physical or digital, including objects published in IIIF. The second webinar hosted by the Practical Applications of IIIF Project, highlighted the need for the ability to be able to consistently identify objects or collections of objects in IIIF. Both the Practical IIIF and Heritage PIDs projects are actively gathering use cases on this topic to understand community needs in this area. Some initial use cases and issues the projects identified include: The ability to assign a PID for collection level manifests to showcase and present areas of a collection The ability to identify IIIF manifests with a PID, both static and dynamic The ability to create PIDs for user generated manifests, collections and annotations The ability to update existing IIIF manifests with PIDs to reflect new imaging or updated metadata. This seminar provided an occasion for a panel of international experts to discuss the opportunities and challenges these use cases present and suggest a way forward for individual implementations and the framework as a whole. Panellists : Ben and Sara Brumfield ( FromThePage), Andy Irving (Bodleian Libraries), Rachael Kotarski (British Library), Joseph Padfield (National Gallery) and Julien Raemy (University of Basel and DaSCH). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://tanc-ahrc.github.io/IIIF-TNC/seminar02.html |
| Description | Demonstration of IIIF solutions for presentation of complex image sets to members of the EPSRC funded ARTICT project. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The EPSRC ARTICT Project (https://art-ict.github.io/artict/), in which NG researchers are Co-Is, is exploring how to process, present and compare sets of analytical and processed conservation/technical images. This workshop demonstrated how the work in the project, specifically the Simple Site system (https://jpadfield.github.io/simple-site/) could be used to present and organise the complex sets of analytical images being created as parts of the study of works of art within the ARTICT project. The system had already been used to setup the ARTICT project website so this was an extension or an exist relationship. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://art-ict.github.io/artict/ |
| Description | Developing a Digital Framework for the Medieval Gaelic World - An Introduction to IIIF: Frameworks and Practicalities - Part of Digital Resources, Manuscripts and Texts: An Online Training Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Part of an event hosted by the AHRC-IRC Digital Humanities Research Network, Developing a Digital Framework for the Medieval Gaelic World (Project Reference AH/V00235X/1), this presentation introduced IIIF to the audience, and explored ways of collaborating digitally using SimpleSite, one of the demonstrators developed as part of the Practical Applications of IIIF project. In addition to an introduction to the International Image Interoperability Framework, the presentation sought to address the way in which IIIF does and could be used to address four key questions: Can we create searchable manuscript catalogues? Can we find or create digital spaces to collaborate or pool our resources? How do we make our data interoperable, exportable, and transparent? How can we ensure persistence of our scholarly work and digital output? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/ael/Research/ResearchinLanguages/imdorus/Events/DigitalResourcesManusc... |
| Description | Digital Methods for Manuscript Studies, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A one day workshop organised by request for the department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic at the University of Cambridge targeted at second-year undergraduate students studying medieval palaeography. The workshop began with an introduction to the IIIF specification, finding and engaging with digital manuscripts, annotating digital content, creating persistent annotations for collaborative digital work, conventions and options for digital display, and concluded with them creating a SimpleSite instance that displayed their work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | IIIF Annual Conference (2021) - Image Alignment Challenges: State of the Art |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation given at the Annual IIIF conference discussing the methods used for align and compare images (such as visible light images, x-rays, and hyperspectral imaging) for scientific research and public engagement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/W9Pe5MP0CFk?t=455 |
| Description | IIIF Annual Conference (2021) - Regional Meeting: UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Claire Knowles (University of Leeds) and I co-chaired the UK regional group meeting which addressed issues pertinent to the IIIF community in the UK as determined by a survey that I created and disseminated to relevant GLAM sector organisations and mailing lists within the UK and internationally. The panel brought together international experts to discuss IIIF activity in the UK and how national engagement with IIIF fed into larger international working groups and plans. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | IIIF Annual Conference and Showcase - Cambridge, MA (USA) - A New Manifest Editor (and more) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Tom Crane, Digirati, United Kingdom; Stephen Fraser, Digirati, United Kingdom Why a new Manifest Editor? As the use of IIIF grows, so the need for IIIF content creation tools grows. Most IIIF manifests are expected to produce consistent results in standard IIIF viewers. But increasingly, manifests are also being created for very specific user interfaces. An early example is Wellcome Collection's Sleep Stories [1], from 2016. In 2017, Digirati worked on IIIF Manifest-driven narratives for the V&A [2], and in 2018 for Technical University, Delft.[3] This work produced a IIIF Manifest Editor [4] that in normal, default mode produces IIIF Presentation 3 Manifests, but can be extended with plugins to produce IIIF Manifests with particular structures and custom behavior properties, to drive bespoke viewing experiences - slideshows, guided viewing and the complex digital exhibition layouts seen in the Delft examples. Now, in partnership with the UK Towards a National Collection project [5] and Delft University of Technology Library, we are building a new Manifest Editor framework, that can accommodate many of the use cases we have seen emerging over the last 6 years. This aims to provide a general purpose tool that is: - Suitable for creating general purpose manifests - Great for learning IIIF concepts - Configurable to create manifests for specific target environments - Easily integrated into diverse production workflows In this presentation, we will explore the features of Manifest Editor and look at how it can be adapted for specialist use cases. Read more at https://github.com/digirati-co-uk/iiif-manifest-editor - -- [1] https://ghp.wellcomecollection.org/annotation-viewer/quilt/ [2] https://medium.com/digirati-ch/reaching-into-collections-to-tell-stories-3dc32a1772af [3] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZRXJaOYNbOD0jsOF79maKhxl5re4-2Kt/view [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8oA3rHbvPM [5] https://www.nationalcollection.org.uk/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://iiif.io/event/2022/cambridge/schedule/#111 |
| Description | IIIF Annual Conference and Showcase - Cambridge, MA (USA) - IIIF - Could it be time to swap the Image for Information? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | As part of the "2022 IIIF Annual Conference and Showcase - Cambridge, MA (USA)" this presentation was given to highlight the scope and range of the IIIF technology and how work within this funded project demonstrated that IIIF was used or potentially used in relation a much wider range of media types then just images. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://iiif.io/event/2022/cambridge/schedule/#153 |
| Description | IIIF Community Call (Technical): Simple-Site - Practical applications of IIIF as a building block towards a digital National Collection |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented the project to the IIIF community, with a specific focus on the SimpleSite system (https://github.com/jpadfield/simple-site), the development of which was supported by the project, as the basis of a simple platform to arrange and work with IIIF resources. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LbmJPltkA-icoLOkXBWI5P-GDLszY_nWd76mDgG0jek/edit |
| Description | IIIF Community Call - Towards a National Collection |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a IIIF open community virtual meeting, dedicated to the Towards a National Collection program and it provided us with the opportunity to present our project to the international IIIIF community, directly at the meeting but also through provided access to recording of the presentation. The presentation led to further discussions of how our project can work with the IIIF consortium particularly in relation to the IIIF Discovery for Humans Community Group (https://iiif.io/community/groups/D4H/) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x-cvJD8dHaJ3tlYbK90DweK3Q1IWUFEqiNsib45saP0/edit?usp=sharing |
| Description | IIIF Community Call: Museums Working Group - IIIF and technical imaging |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A group of project partners along with colleagues from the National Gallery presented during the monthly meeting of the IIIF Museums community group regarding the potential use of IIIF with regard to scientific images (samples taken from paintings, multi-spectral or hyperspectral imaging, x-ray and visible light composites) for research, recording and display. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | IIIF Community Call: Simple Site: Using existing IIIF resources to create your own IIIF presentations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | As part of the Sept. 2021 IIIF Community Call meeting some of the work of the Practical applications of IIIF project were presented with a virtual seminar. An introduction to the Simple Site System (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4504844) a simple set of processes, based in GitHub, for creating a standard set of web-pages based on a simple set of json files. This presentation also introduced a Simple IIIF Discovery system (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5512980) which facilitates simple text based searches for IIIF (https://iiif.io) resources across multiple collections. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://jpadfield.github.io/simple-site/ |
| Description | IIIF for Research (IIIF4R) Network Workshop - The Practical Applications of IIIF |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | This presentation provided a summary of the Practical Applications of IIIF as a Building Block Towards a Digital National Collection project to date (21 June 2021) as part of an event hosted by the IIIF for Research (IIIF4R) Network sponsored by the AHRC (project reference AH/V002260/1) and the Irish Research Council. Considering the impact of the project, it's benefit, and the potential of IIIF to engage with research scholars, this presentation explored the application of the Practical Applications of IIIF project's demonstrators within the realms of academic outputs and publication. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | MA in Art History, Curatorship and Renaissance Culture 2022: Digital documentation for works of art |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Approximately 15 students from the Warburg Institute MA in Art History, Curatorship and Renaissance Culture attended a closed lecture discussing Digital Documentation and how it related to their current work but also how they might work in the future - the lecture included descriptions of the Practical applications of IIIF project and the use of IIIF in general. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | MA in Art History, Curatorship and Renaissance Culture: Digital documentation for works of art |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Approximately 15 students from the Warburg Institute MA in Art History, Curatorship and Renaissance Culture attended a closed virtual lecture discussing Digital Documentation and how it related to their current work but also how they might work in the future - the lecture included descriptions of the Practical applications of IIIF project and the use of IIIF in general. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Museum Computer Group Conference: Objects, institutions, nations and tales: Towards shared stories (image sharing with IIIF) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This breakout session was organised as part of the 2020 Museums Computer Group Annual conference - it was structured to briefly introduce the project, demonstrate how IIIF could be used to connect National Gallery and V&A content and then allow a good amount of time for discussion. The demonstration worked well and led to a good discussions and a good level engagement with the related software repositories on GitHub (https://github.com/jpadfield/simple-site). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.museumscomputergroup.org.uk/events/museumstech-2020/ |
| Description | National Gallery Research Centre Staff Forum (Sept 2021) - The Practical Applications of IIIF at the National Gallery: Towards a National Collection and beyond |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Designed to inform the staff and students at the National Gallery regarding the ongoing research taking place in various departments, the presentation I gave as part of this research seminar announced the work of the project and highlighted the ongoing collaboration with our project partners and commercial vendors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | National Gallery Research Centre Staff Forum (Sept 2021) - Working in digital collaboration: Combining the work of related projects |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was presented as part an ongoing series of presentations presented by the National Gallery Research Centre Staff Forum to increase awareness of the research work being carried out within the National Gallery. This particular presentation presented a series of ongoing UK and EU research projects that all related to digital collaborations, including the work of the Practical Applications of IIIF project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | National Gallery Scientific Consultative Group 2020 - Practical Applications of IIIF |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Senior internal and External National Gallery review board, includes HEI and IRO representatives, along with Trustees and senior management of the National Gallery. The purpose of the meeting is to present the work of the Scientific Department of the National Gallery to promote research discussions and forward planning. The project presentation was well received and supported the growing use of IIIF within the National Gallery. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | National Gallery Scientific Consultative Group 2021 - Simple IIIF Discovery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Senior internal and External National Gallery review board, includes HEI and IRO representatives, along with Trustees and senior management of the National Gallery. The purpose of the meeting is to present the work of the Scientific Department of the National Gallery to promote research discussions and forward planning. The project work presentation was well received and continued to support the growing use of IIIF within the National Gallery. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://research.ng-london.org.uk/ss-iiif/ |
| Description | National Gallery Scientific Consultative Group 2021 - The Practical Applications of IIIF |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Given to a group of industry experts and senior leadership at the National Gallery, this presentation recapped the original strategy for the Practical Applications of IIIF project, provided updates regarding project outputs as well as the project's engagement activities including the outputs of 4 webinars, development on four demonstrators designed to answer key issues within the IIIF GLAM community, and the community outreach via social media. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | National Gallery Scientific Consultative Group 2022 - Developing the Building Blocks of Improved Data Management |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Senior internal and External National Gallery review board, includes HEI and IRO representatives, along with Trustees and senior management of the National Gallery. The purpose of the meeting is to present the work of the Scientific Department of the National Gallery to promote research discussions and forward planning. The project work was presented in the context of more general Data Management issues and how some aspects of the project work should be taken forward, the presentation was well received and continued to support the growing use of IIIF within the National Gallery. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Persistent identifiers in IIIF resources - how should they be used? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A public blog created to summarise and review a joint virtual seminar held by two AHRC funded projects, "Practical applications of IIIF" and "Persistent Identifiers as IRO Infrastructure" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://tanc-ahrc.github.io/HeritagePIDs/PIDs%20and%20IIIF.html |
| Description | Practical IIIF Seminar - Image Registration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The "Practical applications of IIIF: as a building block towards a digital National Collection", part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council's (AHRC) funded Towards a National Collection Programme, aims to highlight and demonstrate the opportunities and benefits that the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) standard offers to a wide audience of heritage institutions and researchers looking to share, present and re-use high quality images and media on the web. This Zenodo repository presents the documents, videos, and files associated with the Practical Applications of IIIF Presents: A Seminar on Image Registration, held on 11 July 2021, which was facilitated project as an response to the discussion that arose from the project's first webinar. Image Registration, simply put, is the process of aligning one image on top of another one, yet the process of doing so is remarkably complex. Arising out of the first Practical Applications of IIIF Webinar (https://tanc-ahrc.github.io/IIIFTNC/webinar01.html), and a subsequent call as part of the IIIF Museums Community Group in the beginning of May, it was decided that we needed a dedicated time to discuss not only how Image Registration is currently being employed across various sectors, but also share some recommendations and effective practices, as well as consider the ways in which Image Registration is evolving and how it may be accomplished in the future. To this end, we invited a panel of specialists to share their expertise in what we hope shall be a lively and informative conversation in which participants from the audience are encouraged to actively participate as we discuss the methods, challenges and possibilities of Image Registration Panellists included: Ryan Baumann (Duke University), Giles Bergel (University of Oxford), Andrew Bruce (National Gallery, UK), John Cupitt (Imperial College London), Nathan Daly (National Gallery, UK), Joanne Dyer (British Museum), Rob Erdmann (Rijksmuseum), Adam Gibson (UCL), Luca Carini (V&A), Maria Villafane (Imperial College London), Keats Webb (Smithsonian Institution), Charles Willard (UCL). An introduction to the Session was given by Joe Padfield (National Gallery, UK) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://tanc-ahrc.github.io/IIIF-TNC/seminar01.html |
| Description | Practical IIIF Webinar - Connected Collections |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In celebration of reaching 500 followers on Twitter, as well as marking the half way point of the project, a serise of short blogs where created to showcase highlights of our partners' collections and their work and engagement with IIIF. In the viewer below, you can see each of the featured items as we build up the collection over the coming days, presenting just one image of what a potential 'national collection' may look like and how IIIF can facilitate the bringing together of images from different collections from all across the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://tanc-ahrc.github.io/IIIF-TNC/connected-collections.html |
| Description | Practical IIIF Webinar - IIIF Services and Tools |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was originally intended as a workshop for approximately 30 -40 people, but due to COVID it was converted into a virtual webinar, this allowed a much larger and much broader group of participants and facilitated a full digital record, posted on the project website and on Zenodo, of the event which has subsequently increased the number of people the event was able to reach. Following on from our first webinar which showcased the ways in which IIIF was used by institutions and members of the community, this webinar instead focused more on the services, tools and implementations utilised in varying environments from individual researchers and small projects to national collaborations. Broken into two sections, the webinar began with an initial set of presentations intended to introduce attendees to the ways, manners and difficulties faced in implementing IIIF, this was followed by an interactive panel discussion featuring experts from across the IIIF and digital humanities landscape. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://tanc-ahrc.github.io/IIIF-TNC/webinar02.html |
| Description | Practical IIIF Webinar - Practical Applications of IIIF |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was originally intended as a workshop for approximately 80 people, but due to COVID it was converted into a virtual webinar, this allowed a much larger and much broader group of participants and facilitated a full digital record, posted on the project website and on Zenodo, of the event which has subsequently increased the number of people the event was able to reach. "Practical applications of IIIF: as a building block towards a digital National Collection", part of the AHRC funded "Towards a National Collection" programme, aims to highlight and demonstrate the opportunities and benefits that the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) standard offers to a wide audience of heritage institutions and researchers looking to share, present and re-use high quality images and media on the web. This webinar will present several examples of how IIIF resources are currently being used for research and public engagement. Identifying some of the available resources/tools, and how they can be used in the future, ranging from presentation from large institutions, like the V&A to options available to individual researchers. This webinar, facilitated by the National Gallery, will be broken up into two sections, with an initial set of presentations showcasing how IIIF is being used now, followed by a second set of presentations focusing on some of the research that will be explored within the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://tanc-ahrc.github.io/IIIF-TNC/webinar01.html |
| Description | Towards a National Collection: Opening UK Heritage to the world, Programme - Open Meeting Edinburgh: Practical applications of IIIF as a building block towards a digital National Collection (IIIF - TNC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The project was presented as part of workshop discussing a then future AHRC funding call (https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/discovery-projects-call-towards-a-national-collection-opening-uk-heritage-to-the-world/). The purpose of the presentation was describe the scope of the project and to promote the importance of the work in the project, particularly the IIIF. The presentation led to a variety of useful conversations and seems to have helped support an increase in awareness of IIIF and its importance for the Heritage sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://ahrc.ukri.org/documents/presentations/tanc-introduction-march-2020/ |
| Description | Towards a National Collection: Opening UK Heritage to the world, Programme - Open Meeting London: Practical applications of IIIF as a building block towards a digital National Collection (IIIF - TNC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The project was presented as part of workshop discussing a then future AHRC funding call (https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/discovery-projects-call-towards-a-national-collection-opening-uk-heritage-to-the-world/). The purpose of the presentation was describe the scope of the project and to promote the importance of the work in the project, particularly the IIIF. The presentation led to a variety of useful conversations and seems to have helped support an increase in awareness of IIIF and its importance for the Heritage sector. The presentation also led to the direct involvement of the IIIF consortium within the project as a new project partner. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://ahrc.ukri.org/documents/presentations/tanc-introduction-march-2020/ |
| Description | WORKSHOP ON "DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND USER REQUIREMENTS" - Digitisation and Heritage Science data for the Arts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | As part of a wider discussion related to Multi-Dimensional Visual Datasets in the Arts and Humanities, the work of the project (IIIF Simple Discovery and IIIF enabled data repositories) was presented within this open workshop. The workshop in general also expanded on issues related to the future use of 3D IIIF. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/3ddataservice/workshop-visual-data-repositories-for-arts-and-humanities... |
| Description | Webinar: Project Outcomes and Future Directions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "Practical applications of IIIF: as a building block towards a digital National Collection", part of the AHRC funded "Towards a National Collection" programme, aims to highlight and demonstrate the opportunities and benefits that the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) standard offers to a wide audience of heritage institutions and researchers looking to share, present and re-use high quality images and media on the web. This final webinar seeks to present the project demonstrators that were developed as part of the project: the Publication Viewer, SimpleSite and SimpleDiscovery, the Tudor Paintings Research Project/InvenioRDM Repository Pilot, and the new Digirati Manifest Editor. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://tanc-ahrc.github.io/IIIF-TNC/webinar03.html |