IIIF for Research (IIIF4R) Network

该研究网络将调查国际图像互操作性框架(IIIF)提供的创新形式的学术讨论和交流的潜力。IIIF使来自图书馆、档案馆、美术馆和博物馆的数字图像的共享、注释和操作变得更加容易，跨越机构和国家的界限，并为研究人员提供了令人兴奋的新可能性，用于联合分析、记录和讨论原始材料。IIIF是近年来最成功的数字人文倡议之一，已被世界各地的广泛遗产机构采用，包括梵蒂冈图书馆、法国国家图书馆、大英图书馆、爱尔兰数字图书馆以及威尔士和苏格兰国家图书馆。主要的历史手稿图书馆，如剑桥大学的帕克图书馆和达勒姆修道院图书馆，正在使用IIIF提供完整的历史手稿。Mirador等兼容IIIF的浏览器能够以非常高的放大倍数并排比较来自不同国家收藏的图像，为轻松创建大型跨国手稿和其他原始材料图像收藏提供了前景。IIIF浏览器还支持用户对图像进行注释，从而有可能促进出现新的学术演示形式和对原始材料和文物的共享评论。洛约拉大学的Jeffrey C.Witt等学者已经证明了其中的一些可能性，他使用IIIF生成了基于图像的学术版本。这个研究网络的目标是在格拉斯哥、达勒姆、都柏林和阿伯里斯特威斯组织四次研讨会，在艺术和人文研究人员、策展人和信息专业人员之间建立对话，旨在为IIIF的部署和开发制定研究驱动的议程，以调查与人文研究领域相关的广泛原始材料和档案。讲习班将以联合王国和爱尔兰在发展和促进国际投资促进基金方面公认的领导作用为基础。他们将展示IIIF支持对艺术和人文研究人员使用的各种来源材料进行创新分析和评论的许多不同方式。他们将记录IIIF提供的设施在解决特定研究问题方面有价值的用户案例。将提供讲习班的报告和专题介绍，以促进IIIF的未来发展，并鼓励学术参与IIIF的潜力。这些研讨会还将被用来开发利用IIIF的更大规模的项目，包括有望在未来的英国-爱尔兰联合筹资呼吁中获得资金的项目。

This research network will investigate the potential for innovative forms of scholarly discussion and interchange offered by the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF). IIIF enables much easier sharing, annotation and manipulation of digital images from libraries, archives, galleries, and museums across institutional and national boundaries, and offers researchers exciting new possibilities for joint analysis, documentation and discussion of primary materials. IIIF has been one of the most successful digital humanities initiatives of recent years and has been adopted by a wide range of heritage institutions across the world, including the Vatican Library, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the British Library, the Digital Repository of Ireland, and the National Libraries of Wales and Scotland. Major libraries of historic manuscripts, such as the Parker Library at the University of Cambridge and the Durham Priory Library, are being made available in their entirety using IIIF. IIIF-compliant browsers such as Mirador enable images from collections in different countries to be compared side-by-side at very high magnification, offering the prospect of easily creating large trans-national collections of images of manuscripts and other primary materials. IIIF browsers also support user annotation of images, thereby potentially fostering the emergence of new forms of scholarly presentation and shared commentary on primary materials and artefacts. Some of the possibilities have already been demonstrated by scholars such as Jeffrey C. Witt of Loyola University, who has used IIIF to generate image-based scholarly editions.The objectives of this research network are to organise four workshops at Glasgow, Durham, Dublin and Aberystwyth which will build a dialogue between arts and humanities researchers, curators and information professionals intended to develop research-driven agendas for the deployment and development of IIIF to investigate a wide range of primary materials and archives relevant to humanities research domains. The workshops will build on acknowledged leadership in development and promotion of IIIF in both the United Kingdom and Ireland. They will demonstrate the many different ways in which IIIF supports innovative analysis and commentary on the various types of source material used by arts and humanities researchers. They will document user cases where the facilities offered by IIIF are valuable in addressing particular research questions. Reports and presentations from the workshops will be made available to facilitate future development of IIIF and to encourage scholarly engagement with the potential of IIIF. The workshops will also be used to develop larger-scale projects making use of IIIF, including it is hoped projects suitable for funding in future UK-Ireland joint funding calls.