IIIF Archives Community Call, 5th July: Nomad Project
Alison Harvey
Hello all,
The next IIIF Archives Community Group call will be on Tuesday, 5 July 2022 at 9.00 PST, 12.00 ET, 16.00 UTC, 17.00 BST, 18.00 CET. We’ll be joined by Abira Hussein (PhD Student, UCL) curator of digital and virtual reality exhibitions of Somali cultural artifacts and images pre-dating the Somali civil war.
Abira will be demonstrating the Nomad Project, which uses IIIF to contextualise archival Somali objects with the people and traditions to which they belong. Abira will discuss the affordances of immersive and IIIF technology in representing the oral, aural, and other forms of African remembering, and the role of community-based heritage in disrupting static western heritage methods.
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 Mark Matienzo, Stanford University),
Alison Harvey, Archivist
Special Collections and Archives, Cardiff University