IIIF in/and Digital Scholarly Editions

IIIF Workshop

When: Wednesday, May 7th (start: 12:00) & Thursday, May 8th, 2025 (end: 13:00)

Where: Austrian Academy of Sciences,
Georg-Coch-Platz 2 (Postsparkasse), 1010 Vienna
3rd floor, Room 3A.1 + 3A.2 (onsite only event)

Registration: Participation is free of charge, but as room capacity is limited the organizers are kindly asking for registration until March 31st, 2025.
Contact: Roman Bleier, roman.bleier /at/ uni-graz.at or Stephan Kurz, stephan.kurz /at/ oeaw.ac.at

Organizers: Roman Bleier, Department of Digital Humanities, Universität Graz
Stephan Kurz, Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Funding: CLARIAH-AT, ÖAW, FWF Project “History as a Visual Concept” (I 6133)

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The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) is aimed at enabling data exchange of image data and their description and annotation via software interfaces (APIs). Digital scholarly editions share this overarching objective, but focus mostly on data transmitted in textual form. The advantages of using IIIF have been discussed for some time under the keyword “Distributed Editions”. The two-day workshop is intended to enable an exchange between developers of IIIF applications in libraries and digital scholarly editors.

Workshop Details and Programme

The workshop starts on May 7, 2025 at 12:00, and ends on May 8, 13:00. We are happy to announce presentations by Glen Robson (IIIF Technical Coordinator), Rainer Simon (Recogito) and Leander Seige (Handschriftenportal). A detailed programme will be coming soon.