Coordination
Involvement in the IIIF Consortium:
- EF member of IIIF Consortium and Executive Committee
- Attendance of EF to meetings: Copenhagen, Ghent, London (A/V), The Hague, Vatican, London (A/V), Stanford, Edinburgh, Göttingen
- EF Hosted The Hague 2016 technical meeting
- EF Presented at: Ghent & Amsterdam outreach meetings, The Hague technical meeting, Vatican, Edinburgh, Göttingen and in several IIIF events organized in the community (Paris, Bern)
- EF involved in IIIF Newspapers, Text Granularity, and Discovery groups (co-chairing IIIF Discovery group)
- EF involved in Technical Review Committee
- EF was part of the Program Committee of IIIF Conference in Washington (2018) and Göttingen (2019)
- EF and Sound and Vision were involved in IIIF A/V group
- EF should probably contribute some use case to the Discovery4Humans group, as Europeana can be considered a platform to discover IIIF content
EuropeanaTech Task force on coordinating the Europeana Network with IIIF: http://pro.europeana.eu/taskforce/iiif, https://basecamp.com/1768384/projects/13431666/
Collections with IIIF content in Europeana
Providers not using the EDM IIIF profile, displayed thanks to 'hacks' on top of the data
- BnF
- Bodleian Library
- ONB? (David: Only their newspapers. We contacted them and they said they only have IIIF for their newspapers. VC @David they had mentioned also a postcard collection. )
- Wellcome
- National Library of Wales (certain datasets)
- The Europeana Newspapers partners using the Europeana Shared Image Service (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Hamburg State Library, Teßmann Library, National Library of Estonia, National Library of Latvia, National Library of Luxembourg, National Library of Finland, University of Belgrade, and National Library of Poland)
- Bavarian State Library ? https://iiif.digitale-sammlungen.de
Providers using the EDM IIIF profile:
- Full list:
- University Heidelberg
- University College Dublin
- Swedish National Museum (subset of their imagery)
- eCodices
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Manuscriptorium
- National Library of Wales
- National Library of Scotland
- ICCU (Instituto Centrale per Catalogo Unico, Italy)
IIIF advocacy for Europeana providers
Europeana motivations to support rich media content are mostly described in the Europeana Publishing Framework
The 2018 version of Europeana Publishing Guide (http://pro.europeana.eu/publication/publication-policy) has encouraged provision of IIIF: https://basecamp.com/1768384/projects/1000684/messages/66638642, including IIIF in tier 2 content.
IIIF sessions/workshops at Europeana events:
- IIIF Presentations at EuropeanaTech 2015
- IIIF showcase at EuropeanaTech 2018
- IIIF sessions at the 2019 Aggregator Forum
- IIIF workshop at Europeana 2019 Conference
In 2020 A new IIIF x Europeana working group (https://pro.europeana.eu/project/iiif-europeana-working-group) has been launched, where EF has presented.
Data interoperability: EDM IIIF profile
- History of the discussions to create a simple solution to ingest IIIF content https://docs.google.com/document/d/14OnHx1bjLWew4aFjH0Pd5gKZPDFpFOV8zJQcg_TfT9E/edit
- The work of Europeana Cloud has started to touch upon the issue of full-text modelling. First modelling proposals have been made based on IIIF (using the data examples from the National Library of Wales) and the Web Annotation Data models. Recommendations for representing digital content provided as part of the Europeana Cloud (deliverable D4.4) project http://pro.europeana.eu/files/Europeana_Professional/Projects/Project_list/Europeana_Cloud/Deliverables/D4.4%20Recommendations%20For%20Enhancing%20EDM%20to%20Support%20Research%20Oriented%20Content.pdf
- Open issues raised by the deliverable D4.4 https://docs.google.com/document/d/14-5Pwi7AOAtXM4jjiPNsrCP-qYlIE4msCWzIigY3rtk/edit
- Europeana published a EDM profile explaining to data providers how to submit their IIIF resources in EDM: http://pro.europeana.eu/files/Europeana_Professional/Share_your_data/Technical_requirements/EDM_profiles/IIIFtoEDM_profile_042016.pdf.This work was initiated as part of the Europeana Cloud project and based on data examples provided by the National Library of Wales. Modelling solutions were also discussed and approved by the IIIF community (including DPLA).
Data interoperability: IIIF Newspapers/Full-text
- Solutions for representing Newspapers and Full-text have been also discussed as part of the deliverable D4.4 and the open issues document (see above).
- Since the publication of the deliverable in January 2016, the Europeana user stories were provided to the IIIF community and were discussed as part of the IIIF Newspaper Interest Group. Contributions to IIIF Newspapers Group http://iiif.io/community/groups/newspapers
- Folder with the minutes of past calls at https://goo.gl/jNFfVw
- Newspapers user stories: https://github.com/IIIF/iiif-stories/labels/newspapers
- Current draft of the IIIF Newspapers model is being discussed at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1di1uYGau_ABUPmhnOcd8KH5yZyHS1sDbiZrp5aTpx5M/
- Implementation Notes on IIIF Newspaper model: in https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzwwH42kMWgTcjNEN0tvdU00NDQ
- The first version of the EDM FullText Profile was prepared. The profile is compatible with IIIF annotations for full text: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t5yGEzQ0KV2rqU0sFDoKnI2bIDBGrmj0f1gSOCRUgJ4/
Further work on the full-text modelling could consist in updating those recommendations according to the most recent discussions of the IIIF Newspaper Interest Group and the Text Granularity Interest Group. - Europeana is going to publish a newspaper recipe as part of the IIIF cookbook (https://iiif.io/api/cookbook/)
Data interoperability: Other best practices and norms
Cf notes of the 2016 IIIF Technical meeting in The Hague https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XDMVlHmAZ0d6wIW9nYYyvPF_UZ1Zx3IaK8j1mL2MMsk/
Infrastructure: displaying IIIF in Europeana
see http://labs.europeana.eu/blog/building-a-rich-media-experience-with-the-europeana-api-and-iiif
Infrastructure: Europeana Shared Image Service (IIIF) based on the Europeana Cloud infrastructure
The service allows upload to batches of images via a REST-API, conversion to JPEG2000 and publication of the images compliant with the IIIF Image API. The service API documentation is available.
Currently the service is in internal use only, used to serve images of newspapers, see e.g. http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/9200355/BibliographicResource_3000119062998.html
Further development of this service is currently on hold and will be until July 2017.
The following libraries of Europeana Newspapers have their scans in the service:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Hamburg State Library, Teßmann Library, National Library of Estonia, National Library of Latvia, National Library of Luxembourg, National Library of Finland, University of Belgrade, and National Library of Poland
Infrastructure: Discovery and harvesting of IIIF resources
First experiments:
- Experiment on harvesting metadata from manifests: https://github.com/nfreire/IIIF-Manifest-Metadata-Harvesting
- Case study with University College Dublin: https://github.com/nfreire/EuropeanaIIIFIngestionCaseStudyUCD
- Case study with National Library of Wales: Documented in the JCDL submission ("Metadata aggregation: assessing the application of IIIF and Sitemaps within cultural heritage", also here for insiders: https://basecamp.com/1768384/projects/13578723/forwards/5960369)
- DSI-2 D6.7 Report on LOD and alternative data acquisition mechanisms for Europeana: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HyAtkW4gNoxkrfe1LoYUQXQfivvV4zYfD6wobTs7OoE/
- Adoption 'Guide for IIIF harvesting in the Data Aggregation Lab' - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q_jl9AbsfjDUWsK2IvTmr3FafOTAFJNgMApZH5Twy-U
- Julien Raemy has begun investigating interest and conditions for new harvesting technology piloted by EF, including IIIF-based options. A survey has been made
Contributions to IIIF Discovery Group:
- Europeana Discovery Case for preparing the charter : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/iiif-discuss/1GHXk6-K_bU/K0duO6xnAQAJ;context-place=msg/iiif-discuss/q-QWFmZ3yj4/IJGtW0vDDQAJ
- Europeana's reference implementation of the Chage Discovery API v0.1, v0.2, v0.3, v0.4: https://github.com/nfreire/iiif-discovery-crawling
- The Data Aggregation Lab software, which contains prototypes of IIIF metadata harvesting methods: https://github.com/nfreire/data-aggregation-lab
See also presentations of demonstrations for the IIIF community: IIIF Comunity call (October 2018), and earlier version from the Stanford University Discovery Workshop (June 2018)
The earlier investigations on including a component in Metis to harvest IIIF manifests and ingesting EDM metadata through them, reached a more mature state. A prototype as been tested successfully by the DPS Team.
A guide for IIIF havesting by the DPS team was prepared (listed in the previous point)
Future integration into METIS will be conducted to the plans of the METIS team. It has been included in the DSI-4 Aggregation strategy deliverable
Experiments have been made on searching IIIF resources for Europeana objects in Wikidata: https://test-solr-mongo.eanadev.org/share/wikidata-iiif-web-resources/2019-04-10_IIIF-enrichment/
NB: pilots could be done with relevant members of the Discovery group
A/V
- London discussions have also started around the collection of requirements for extensions of IIIF for audio-visuals materials: (EF voted) https://goo.gl/iVXEFD
- Blog from Beeld en Geluid at https://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en/blogs/research-amp-development-en/201604/interweaving-online-media-ixif
- List of potential A/V members from the Europeana Network: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11HEodVV4C7kiE48euNYK_tw9r1OugtJVxqe4hLfXPj8/edit
Publications
Europeana Blogs:
- http://pro.europeana.eu/blogpost/europeana-aligns-with-the-international-image-interoperability-framework-iiif
- http://pro.europeana.eu/blogpost/europeana-and-iiif-update-oct-2016
- https://pro.europeana.eu/post/building-a-rich-media-experience-with-the-europeana-api-and-iiif
- http://pro.europeana.eu/blogpost/iiif-adoption-by-europeana-future-perspectives-for-the-network-1
- http://pro.europeana.eu/share-your-data/data-guidelines/edm-case-studies/edm-in-nomisma-org
EuropeanaTech publications:
- http://pro.europeana.eu/get-involved/europeana-tech/europeanatech-insight/issue-3-open-data-and-data-re-use
- http://pro.europeana.eu/page/issue-6-iiif
- https://pro.europeana.eu/page/issue-8-tpdl#metadata-aggregation-assessing-the-application-of-iiif-and-sitemaps-within-cultural-heritage
Submissions to external conferences:
- Web technologies: a survey of their applicability to metadata aggregation in cultural heritage (ELPUB 2017)
- Metadata aggregation: assessing the application of IIIF and Sitemaps within cultural heritage (JCDL 2017)
- Data quality in Europeana Designing extensive EDM records: The Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg study case (DHBenelux17)
- Cultural heritage metadata aggregation using web technologies: IIIF, Sitemaps and Schema.org’, International Journal on Digital Libraries. 2018
A survey of Web technology for metadata aggregation in cultural heritage, Information Services & Use Journal, 2018
- Opening Digitized Newspapers Corpora: Europeana’s Full-text Data Interoperability Case (LDK 2019)
- The Data Aggregation Lab software: experimentation for linked data aggregation in Cultural Heritage (MTSR 2019)
Case studies:
- EDM in Nomisma (above)
- Heidelberg (above)
- Newspaper recipe for the IIIF Cookbook
Other relevant research and coordination initiatives
- Biblissima work on IIIF and manuscripts:
- Europeana membership in 'Annotate all knowledge' coalition
- blog http://pro.europeana.eu/blogpost/building-an-open-layer-over-all-knowledge
- presentation of papers/demos to iAnnotate