Paper 8

2018 Washington conference submission

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Museums Community Group

Michael Appleby - Yale Center for British Art (United States), Emmanuelle Delmas-Glass - Yale Center for British Art (United States), Tina Shah - Art Institute of Chicago (United States)

Abstract: The Museums Community Group will gather to reflect on the community's progress over the past year and plan for the future. Discussion topics will include:

- experiences of new adopters of IIIF
- training and outreach events over the past year
- potential use of new IIIF technical specifications, including Discovery and AV
- technical demonstrations and discussion of museum-related software development projects
- plans for the upcoming year, including adoption, publication of content, and opportunities for collaboration

The panel will be structured as a series of brief presentations interspersed with opportunities for both Q&A and lengthier group discussion of topics that are of particular interest to attendees.

Presentation type: 60 minute discussion

Topics:

  • IIIF enabled collaboration,
  • IIIF content communities (museums, manuscripts, newspapers, archival content, etc.),
  • Emerging use cases for IIIF technical specifications,
  • IIIF-compatible software and experimentation

Keywords:

  • Museums,
  • Outreach,
  • Collaboration,
  • Discovery