IIIF in/and Digital Scholarly Editions
IIIF Workshop
When: Wednesday, May 7th (start: 12:00) & Thursday, May 8th, 2025 (end: 13:30)
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 April 11, 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)
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.
Programme
The workshop starts on May 7, 2025 at 12:00, and ends on May 8, 13:30. We are happy to announce presentations by Glen Robson (IIIF Technical Coordinator), Rainer Simon (Recogito) and Leander Seige (Handschriftenportal).
May 7, 2025 - Data Providers
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Opening remarks |
| Introduction round | |
| Lydia Eder (IHB/ÖAW) - Introduction: IIIF resources in the CLARIAH-AT framework | |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Session 1 |
| Torsten Schaßan (Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel) - Usage of IIIF for digital facsimiles and digital editions at the HAB | |
| Johannes Knüchel, Christoph Steindl (ÖNB) - The IIIF services of the Austrian National Library | |
| Christiane Fritze (Wienbibliothek im Rathaus) - IIIF application in the Vienna City Library | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Break |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | Session 2 |
| Barbara Tramelli (Freie Universität Bozen) - The use of IIIF in the Biblissima collections: future perspectives for the project ,Le livre illustré à Lyon (1480-1600)‘ | |
| Leander Seige (Leipzig University Library) - IIIF and Persistent Identifiers: Foundations for Cross-Institutional Scholarly Work | |
| Roman Bleier, Jakob Sonnberger (University of Graz) - IIIF and GAMS Projects: Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium Historiae as Example | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Break |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Evening Lecture |
| Glen Robson (Technical Coordinator, IIIF Consortium) - IIIF Developments and interesting implementations | |
| Discussion | |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
May 8, 2025 - Tools and Applications
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Session 3 |
| Sonia Weiss (Transkribus/READ-COOP) - From Raw Data to Digital Editions using IIIF: Preparing and Publishing with Transkribus Sites | |
| Peter Andorfer (ACDH-CH/ÖAW) - How the ACDH-CH uses IIIF (not only) for digital scholarly editions | |
| Rainer Simon - Real-time collaborative annotation with liiive | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Session 4 |
| Martina Bürgermeister (ÖNB) - Use cases of IIIF in the Digital Scholarly Editions infrastructure of the Austrian National Library | |
| Nicolas Renet, Florian Atzenhofer-Baumgartner (Uni Graz) - IIIF for Historical Document Analysis: Approaches to Machine Learning and Image Annotation Workflows in Monasterium.net | |
| Participants’ projects | |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Closing Remarks |