Intersecting Digital Archives and GIS Technologies: Bringing IIIF Images to GIS Environments

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  1. 1. Nung-yao Lin

    Max Planck Institute for the History of Science / Institution Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

  2. 2. Shih-Pei Chen

    Max Planck Institute for the History of Science / Institution Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

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Since its publication in 2011,  International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) has been widely adopted by archival institutions in particular.  Among the image resources that are served on IIIF-compatible servers, many contain geographical references, whether images at or about certain places or historical maps for particular geographical regions. Due to the high cost of georeferencing, many archival institutions only digitize their resources and stop before georeferencing those images. Currently, IIIF does not address the issue of geo-referencing or geospatial metadata. This paper describes a Web-based service that allows users to associate IIIF images with geographical coordinates in a much easier and more feasible way than georeferencing. By associating IIIF images with geo-coordinates, it enables digitized cultural heritage images to be searched by their geographical locations rather than just by their metadata. It also enables them to be used with GIS technologies for geospatial observation and research.

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Conference Info

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ADHO - 2020
"carrefours / intersections"

Hosted at Carleton University, Université d'Ottawa (University of Ottawa)

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

July 20, 2020 - July 25, 2020

475 works by 1078 authors indexed

Conference cancelled due to coronavirus. Online conference held at https://hcommons.org/groups/dh2020/. Data for this conference were initially prepared and cleaned by May Ning.

Conference website: https://dh2020.adho.org/

References: https://dh2020.adho.org/abstracts/

Series: ADHO (15)

Organizers: ADHO

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