2019 IIIF Annual Conference, 24.-28.6.2019 in Göttingen: Call for Proposals

Das International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) richtet seine diesjährige Jahreskonferenz vom 24. bis 28. Juni 2019 im niedersächsischen Göttingen aus. Als lokaler Gastgeber tritt die Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen auf. Die Konferenz richtet sich in diesem Jahr insbesondere auch an die deutschsprachige Community bzw. an Personen, die bisher noch nicht in den IIIF-Kontext eingebunden sind.

Im Folgenden der englischsprachige Call for Proposals, der bis zum 1. März zur Einreichung von Beiträgen einlädt, sowie weitere Informationen zur Konferenz. Bei Fragen steht das Göttinger Planungsteam gerne zur Verfügung: iiif-gottingen@googlegroups.com

The 2019 IIIF Annual Conference will be held in Göttingen, Germany between the 24th to 28th of June. The conference is hosted by the University of Göttingen / Göttingen State and University Library. The outline for the conference is below:

• Monday June 24th – IIIF Showcase
• Tuesday June 25th – Workshops and working meetings
• Wednesday June 26th – IIIF Conference plenary
• Thursday June 27th
• Friday AM June 28th  – IIIF Conference parallel sessions

Further details on the conference can be found at: https://iiif.io/event/2019/goettingen/

The Göttingen Planning committee is looking for proposals for talks in the following forms:

• Up to a ½ day workshop
• 7 to 10 minute lightning talks
• 20 minute presentations (plus 10 mins questions)
• 90 minute open block (Could be panel session or grouped presentations)

Please submit an abstract of no longer than 500 words for your presentation or discussion by Friday the 1st of March using the conference tool: https://goo.gl/forms/qNOT6i2IAW75C6NS2

Final versions of the accepted abstracts will be made available on the conference website and presentations are to be uploaded to google drive.

We encourage showcasing developments in IIIF and in particular would welcome presentations in the following areas:

• Annotation, including full-text or academic use cases
• Using IIIF material for Machine Learning and AI
• Discovering IIIF resources
• Audio/Visual use cases for IIIF
• Linked Open “Usable” Data (LOUD) and IIIF
• IIIF Implementation Spectrum: large-scale or small-scale projects
• Interoperability in IIIF contexts
• Implementations of IIIF outside of North America/Europe
• IIIF communities (archives, museums, manuscripts, newspapers, etc.)

If you have any questions please contact the Göttingen Program Committee iiif-gottingen@googlegroups.com.

Thank you!

– IIIF 2019 Conference program committee:
Ben Albritton (Stanford University)
Glen Robson (IIIF-C)
Jack Reed (Stanford University)
Jeff Mixter (OCLC Research)
Josh Hadro (IIIF_C)
Julien A. Raemy (HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Haute école de gestion de Genève)
Nuno Freire (Europeana)
Rachel Di Cresce (University of Toronto)
Rashmi Singhal (Harvard University)
Rebecca Hirsch (Yale University)
Regine Stein (Göttingen State and University Library)
Sara Brumfield (Brumfield Labs)
Scott Renton (University of Edinburgh)
Stacey Redick (Folger Shakespeare Library)