Trinity College Dublin is one of the lead institutions in the IIIF4Research Network. The Library of Trinity College Dublin will host a IIIF4Research online seminar on Monday 28th February 2022, between 4pm and 6pm GMT.
Time: 4:00-6:00 pm GMT
Trinity College Dublin is one of the lead institutions in the IIIF4Research Network. Our friends at the Library of Trinity College Dublin will host a IIIF4Research online seminar on Monday 28th February 2022, between 4pm and 6pm GMT.
The seminar is one of a series provided by members of the IIIF4Research Network. The Network, led by the research partners at Trinity College Dublin, University of Glasgow, University of Durham and University of Wales, is investigating the potential for innovative forms of scholarly discussion and interchange offered by the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF).
The aim of seminar series is to bring together academic researchers from a range of humanities disciplines with technical developers, librarians, archivists and other heritage professionals, to jointly explore issues involved in the adoption and development of IIIF and to identify areas where IIIF can have the greatest transformative effect in arts and humanities scholarship.
The focus of the Trinity College Dublin seminar, will be to illustrate how the potential of IIIF to unite dispersed collections can be valuable to scholars across a range of disciplines, including literary studies, Celtic studies, manuscript studies and the early modern cartographic materials in the Fagel collection. This will be an informal and multifaceted session. Through a series of short case studies, and informal networking, this seminar will explore the potential of IIIF to transform scholarly and public engagement with digital collections and to facilitate innovative forms of arts and humanities research. Prior knowledge of or experience in deploying IIIF is not required.
Speaking in advance of the event, Arlene Healy, Sub-librarian, Digital Systems and Services said:
IIIF is one of the most exciting and widely adopted recent developments in digital humanities. The IIIF4Research network and the associated seminar provides an opportunity to demonstrate the scholarly potential of IIIF. The Network goals are fully aligned with the innovative technology strand of Virtual Trinity Library, a key part of the philanthropic campaign for the University. Virtual Trinity Library is a long-term programme to advance research on and disseminate knowledge of the unique collections of the Library by cataloguing, curating, conserving and digitising these rich and rare collections. Innovative technologies such as IIIF will be used to make these collections accessible and facilitate research.
Speakers include:
- Dr Mark Faulkner, Ussher Assistant Professor in Medieval Literature (Trinity College Dublin)
- Danielle Jansen of the KB, National Library of the Netherlands
- Benjamin Albritton, Rare Books Curator, Stanford Libraries
Registration is free and open to researchers, developers, librarians, archivists, heritage professionals and members of the public.
This research/project was funded by UKRI-AHRC and the Irish Research Council under the ‘UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities Networking Call’ (grant numbers AH/V002260/1 and IRC/V002260/1).
