Thursday, November 7, 2019

This panel will look at the lessons learned from the experience of IIIF practitioners in terms of what it takes to institutionally adopt IIIF, and what it takes to collaboratively define the ever evolving IIIF specifications.

The panelists will share experiences from deploying IIIF as a shared standard across different collection types within an institution, such as different curatorial departments within a museum, or across several GLAMs collections within an institution, such as an academic campus. Questions to be explored will include: what are the strategic motivations behind such institutional deployments? What are the challenges of a collaborative approach to designing multidisciplinary collections interfaces? How are user research findings balanced with the temptation to roll out innovative interfaces? What are the implications for teaching and learning?

A high-level description of the mechanisms governing the IIIF community will be also provided, including an overview of its international community groups and organizational structure, as well as its distributed model for the development of its technical specifications. The panelists will reflect on how the IIIF Consortium can engage more deeply with GLAMs, and museums specifically, especially on issues around technological requirements.

Session Type30-Minute Session (Presentation or Case Study)

TrackSystems
Chatham House RuleNo

Key Outcomes

After attending this session, attendees will have learned about the benefits and challenges of community shared standards, especially with users in mind. They will have learned about recently deployed IIIF instances in academic centers such as Yale University, J. Paul Getty Trust, and others.

Speakers

Session Leader : David Newbury, Enterprise Software Architect, J. Paul Getty Trust

Co-Presenter : Emmanuelle Delmas-Glass, Collections Data Manager, Yale Center for British Art

Co-Presenter : Thomas R. Raich, Director of Information Technology, Yale University Art Gallery