Conference Agenda

This presentation highlights the recent migration the digital research project The Early History of the Accademia di San Luca. Created with Canopy IIIF, a static HTML generator designed for digital scholarship collections using IIIF APIs, a newly launched website—and the overall project—was designed to be sustainable, reusable, and to employ minimal resources. The research team adopted Canopy IIIF to move away from the single platform model towards a multi-platform approach, as our presentation will discuss. Within the digital repository of The Early History of the Accademia di San Luca, Canopy IIIF is used for historical material in parallel with other existing platforms dedicated to digital publications (Quire) and an online bibliography (Zotero). The project team uses Tropy to curate image collections and metadata; the Tropiiify extension to export IIIF collections in three main content types (documents, maps, and guidebooks); and GitHub Pages to publish source files. We discuss how adopting independent platforms already used by our institution eased the endemic uncertainty of preservating digital projects, since their different components can be replaced and rethought without compromising the entirety of the project.

To overcome structural fragmentation and implement global interoperability in digital heritage management, this study demonstrates the extension of IIIF standards into 3D and machine learning (ML) domains using a case study from the Korea National University of Cultural Heritage. Specifically, the following three contributions are proposed. First, a lifecycle management pipeline was developed by augmenting IIIF APIs with paradata. Using a "Paramanifest" structure, this system supports gigapixel-scale resolution and scroll-telling visualization for resources ranging from artifacts to intangible heritage. Second, a multidimensional exploration feature is introduced, utilizing the Content State API and a 3D Web Annotation Data Model to enable semantic traversal between 2D and 3D formats. Third, a generative AI-powered prototype is presented, which uses IIIF structured annotations to transform visual resources into active mediators for knowledge discovery. In conclusion, this study proposes that integrating semantic 3D technologies with AI evolves IIIF into a comprehensive framework for the multisensory digital heritage ecosystem.

This paper reflects on digital methods developed through work on The Chymistry of Isaac Newton project, with particular attention to the integration of IIIF-served manuscript images, TEI-encoded transcriptions, and AI-assisted watermark detection.

How does IIIF affect the process of migrating to a new repository and vice versa?

Leiden University Libraries (UBL) is currently in the process of developing and migrating to a brand new repository for all our (millions) digital objects. This has impact on the way we work with IIIF.

The issue we faced is that in the new situation, all the manifests and their location would change, resulting in broken links for our users. Furthermore, because of other projects going on, it is likely for us that this would occur again in our near future. Not user-friendly.

Therefore, we developed an elegant solution we call the Endpoint to our manifests. The ensures a seamless transition that our end users will not even notice, and will make sure that this remains true in the future, even if we change the manifests or locations again. In short, it does so by using unique identifiers to make sure the correct manifest is retrieved for the requested item. In this presentation, we will go show in detail how this Endpoint works and is in line with the IIIF-philosophy: sustainable, future-ready and user friendly.