2017 IIIF Conference - The Vatican

The IIIF Museums Community Group is open to all parties interested in discussing IIIF and museums. All are welcome.

Agenda document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VJHI_NIFgrZMS4oEBBlFetzZkthPnviihp8122e4G-o/edit?usp=sharing

Bluejeans for remote participants: https://bluejeans.com/502541106  

The IIIF Museums Community Group is open to all parties interested in discussing IIIF and museums. All are welcome.

Agenda document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VJHI_NIFgrZMS4oEBBlFetzZkthPnviihp8122e4G-o/edit?usp=sharing

Bluejeans for remote participants: https://bluejeans.com/502541106  

The IIIF Museums Community Group is open to all parties interested in discussing IIIF and museums. All are welcome.

Agenda document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VJHI_NIFgrZMS4oEBBlFetzZkthPnviihp8122e4G-o/edit?usp=sharing

Bluejeans for remote participants: https://bluejeans.com/502541106  

The physical separation of museums, the constraints of space, the fragility of rare and valuable objects and above all the culture of regarding those objects as singular possessions: these are the things that conspire to prevent museum objects from being reconnected with their history, with ideas and with the people who have interest in them or knowledge about them.

This talk is about the museum without walls; it combines two case studies from the V&A Museum, carried out in collaboration with Made by Many, that demonstrate the power of the networked digital artefact to overcome these constraints, and transform curation into a collective pursuit. The first examines parts of a very large Qing dynasty dinner service held in seven different museums (including the V&A, British Museum and Metropolitan Museum); it explores the extraordinary effect of using digital data to re-combine the different pieces of the service distributed throughout museums and private collections, from Chennai to New York. The second study, currently at prototyping and feasibility stage, demonstrates the value of using APIs to form a networked archive across multiple museums to create a rich platform for the study of Islamic Architecture. It seeks to combine two or more of the existing archives of Sir K.A.C. Creswell’s early 20th Century photography of Islamic architecture in the Middle East, held in the V&A, the American University in Cairo, the Ashmolean Museum, Harvard Library and the Villa I Tatti Center. Creswell’s 20,000 or so photographs and negatives constitute an invaluable and systematic record for both building conservation and emergency archaeology. 

IIIF and its related applications hold significant promise for scholars for image access and discovery, as well as for image research and analysis. But what applications or features are needed by scholars? What are scholars’ current research and publication workflows, and how might IIIF-compliant tools become part of them? In this presentation, Jack Ludden (Assistant Director, Head of Web and New Media Development) and Emily Pugh (Digital Humanities Specialist, Getty Research Institute) will explain how project teams at the Getty employed user research to guide the development of analytic features for the scholarly community. They will provide an overview of the user research process, from user interviews to the development of user personas and journey maps, and explain how the information gleaned from this process was used to develop a list of feature requirements, which will be implemented in the Mirador viewer. The goal of the presentation will be to share insights into how IIIF applications can be integrated into scholars’ research and publication practices as well as to provide potential models for how user research can inform the development of feature sets for all kinds of IIIF applications.

Last year the V&A released it's new award winning website alongside a custom CMS. As we have continued to develop the CMS, tailoring it to closely meet the changing needs of the museum, we've been looking at how we can iteratively integrate IIIF. During this lighting talk we'll be showing several examples of the IIIF integration into the V&A's public website, how that works behind the scenes and ideas of the future direction of how IIIF will be used on the site in the coming years.

The Presentation API is mostly used for documenting images: either providing structured information about a single work, or using annotations to represent information that is included in the image, such as transcriptions. But what if these mechanisms were subverted to create a narrative journey? Either between different images (a manifest with multiple canvases), or between regions of an individual image (a manifest with multiple annotations). In this presentation we will take two such narratives, and use demos and functioning prototypes to show how they can be repurposed to create a range of compelling mechanisms for digital storytelling: from a simple blog-like interface, to interactive images, and even going back to using the most traditional way to tell a good story: the spoken word.