1. IIIF
Access to the World’s images
Almost Christmas 2015
Sylvia Van Peteghem

2. How come we’re involved ?

3. Ghent University
Ghent Gand Gent
° beginning 19th century
Today 41.000 students
9.000 personnel
11 faculties

4. Ghent University Library
Large cultural heritage collection thanks to
French revolution 1789 and special chief librarians 19th C
Strong IT team
Wonderful building

11. Reorganisation 2003

13. Collections
horticulture ?
middle ages ?
ephemera ?
architecture ?

15. Focus on architecture
2004-2009

16. Goal: make collections visible
(metadata, scanning) and
open for research

17. No project money

18. Kill your darlings

19. library: logistics
researchers: research
museum: museum

20. Projects
Recollecting Landscapes

22. We learned to digitize …

23. 40.000 “topo”pictures

24. Google said yes
(Stanford …)
250.000 books
140.000 page views/day

26. If Google can, we can

29. Ghent university said yes

40. We learned a lot
got some skills
know better what we have
know better what we can (and
what we can’t)

41. To keep moving you need
people with ideas, content,
drive, skills in metadata,
scanning, IT.
But also collections and
infrastructure.
And a public.

42. Ready for new dreams …

43. One of these dreams

45. 1904

47. 1980

50. 2004

53. 2014

61. In between

64. You cannot imagine how long it
took me …