IIIF Image Sharing & Collaboration: a case study from the Reformation to Restoration project at the Yale Center for British Art
Location
Yale School of Management
Submission Type
Presentation
Presentation Track
Scholarship & Research
Start Date
10-30-2015 11:00 AM
End Date
10-30-2015 11:50 AM
Description
This presentation showcases the use of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) to support collaborative research projects, such as the Yale Center for British Art’s Reformation to Restoration project, which seeks to establish the authorship of the Yale Center for British Art’s Tudor panel painting collection through a combination of traditional art-historical methods and connoisseurship with the very latest in analytical techniques from conservation science. IIIF has been selected for its capacity to build a standards-based online environment that allows seamless and in-depth collaboration between researchers using a distributed network of image repositories. IIIF creates a global framework by which image-based resources can be delivered to the users for display, manipulation, annotation while leveraging global web standards. This is particularly fitting for the conservation project at hand because, given the nature of the objects, the project investigators have had to rely heavily on the collation, organization and comparison of visual material from a variety of different collections, both public and private. Additionally the web-based image viewer Mirador used to manipulate the IIIF compliant digital resources offers a work space that provides appropriate tools for the earnest collaboration of experts. Particularly, the annotation tool is an important functionality that can record the scholarly process of determining authorship. Finally IIIF adopts the principles of Linked Open Data and consequently fits well within the Yale Center for British Art’s knowledge representation strategy.
IIIF Image Sharing & Collaboration: a case study from the Reformation to Restoration project at the Yale Center for British Art
Yale School of Management
This presentation showcases the use of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) to support collaborative research projects, such as the Yale Center for British Art’s Reformation to Restoration project, which seeks to establish the authorship of the Yale Center for British Art’s Tudor panel painting collection through a combination of traditional art-historical methods and connoisseurship with the very latest in analytical techniques from conservation science. IIIF has been selected for its capacity to build a standards-based online environment that allows seamless and in-depth collaboration between researchers using a distributed network of image repositories. IIIF creates a global framework by which image-based resources can be delivered to the users for display, manipulation, annotation while leveraging global web standards. This is particularly fitting for the conservation project at hand because, given the nature of the objects, the project investigators have had to rely heavily on the collation, organization and comparison of visual material from a variety of different collections, both public and private. Additionally the web-based image viewer Mirador used to manipulate the IIIF compliant digital resources offers a work space that provides appropriate tools for the earnest collaboration of experts. Particularly, the annotation tool is an important functionality that can record the scholarly process of determining authorship. Finally IIIF adopts the principles of Linked Open Data and consequently fits well within the Yale Center for British Art’s knowledge representation strategy.