Information Access Seminar
Linked Data and Images: Building Blocks for Digital Cultural Heritage
Friday, April 18, 2014
3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Rob Sanderson
As more and more cultural heritage objects are digitized and put online in digital libraries and federations such as Digital Public Library of American and Europeana, the need for a distributed methodology of description and interaction becomes increasingly apparent. This is clear not only due to the perceived mish-mash user interface of federations that link out to their content-providing institutions, but also when content needs to be compared between institutions or brought together in a virtual reconstruction of the original object. This seminar will focus on the approach taken by the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), which consists of an easy to implement API for interacting with images, the cornerstone of digital cultural heritage, and a JSON-LD (Linked Data in JSON) description based on the Shared Canvas data model and Open Annotation.
Dr. Robert Sanderson has recently joined Stanford University Libraries to work on linked data and other technology collaboration methodologies. He is no stranger to the Bay, having worked with Stanford for several years, Hypothes.is in San Francisco on Annotation, and had Prof. Ray Larson as external examiner for his Ph.D. more than a decade ago. Previously he worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory on scholarly communication and web infrastructure.