Presentation given by Cillian Joy, Digital Library Developer, National University of Ireland, Galway outlining implementation of International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) at NUIG, at the IIIF Showcase and Workshop, co-hosted by Digital Repository of Ireland, UCD Library, and DARIAH Ireland on 13 March 2018 in the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
3. open access
Omeka, CALM; process such as
EAD to MODS, Excel to MODS
Tools
Islandora
Typical workflow is archival listing > digital
metadata > Ingest.
With some work taking mass digitisation
approaches.
Enable and
Institutionalise
Digital
Scholarship
Archives
Open access
Data
Archives (2/3 listed)
6.5million pages
digitised
~1.5
25,000
At a glance
Digital
Publishing and
Innovation
VISION
million
Remaining are digital surrogates
available on campus
~
4. Why? (for us)
Convinced of the benefits
Funder mandates
But …
Learning curve
How does IIIF sit with our existing solutions?
What does it mean for our workflows and practices?
Does the business case currently stack up?
… we were here for a while …
NUI Galway Library
5. Along came a
project
Michael M. O'Shaughnessy
(1864-1934)
From Limerick to City Engineer
of San Francisco (1912-1932)
https://library.nuigalway.ie/digitalscholarship/projects/shaughnessy/
NUI Galway Library
7. Application, Galway viewer using IIIF
We could have used any technology
We had the will to use IIIF = standards, interoperability, lower long
term cost
Opportunities for unified cross institution/collection usability
Reusable viewer with callouts to related content and timeline
NUI Galway Library