IIIF-2018: 2018 IIIF Conference - Washington, DC Hosted by the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Folger Shakespeare Library Washington, DC, United States, May 21-25, 2018

The 2018 IIIF conference will be held in Washington DC between May 21st to 25th with support from the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution and the Folger Shakespeare Library. The outline for the conference is similar to previous conferences and is as follows:

• Monday May 21st - Pre Conference workshops hosted by the Smithsonian Institution
• Tuesday May 22nd - IIIF Showcase hosted by the Library of Congress
• Wednesday May 23rd - IIIF Conference plenary hosted by the Library of Congress
• Thursday and Friday - IIIF Conference parallel sessions hosted by the Library of Congress

Submission Guidelines

The Washington Planning committee are looking for proposals for talks in the following forms:

• Lightning talks to be given in a plenary session (7 to 10 minutes)
• Presentations (20 minute presentations plus 5 minutes of questions)
• Discussion or Panel Sessions (60 or 90 minute discussions)

To submit please click on the link at the top of the page. Only abstracts will be required. Final versions of the accepted abstracts will later be made available on the conference website.

Theme

The conference committee has selected the theme of “Utility” for the 2018 conference. How can we improve the utility of existing IIIF guidelines, tools, and applications? We welcome submissions related to the theme and in particular would welcome presentations in the following areas:

• IIIF and archival collections
• IIIF implementations from outside Europe and North America
• IIIF synergies with regional and national ongoing digital libraries, museums and archives initiatives
• IIIF enabled collaboration
• Discovery of IIIF resources
• Audio/Video IIIF implementations
• IIIF content communities (museums, manuscripts, newspapers, archival content, etc.)
• Emerging use cases for IIIF technical specifications
• IIIF-compatible software and experimentation
• Training materials and documentation

Committee

The 2018 IIIF Conference program committee:

• Ben Albritton (Stanford University)
• Dave Beaudet (National Gallery of Art)
• Sara Brumfield (Brumfield Labs)
• Tom Cramer (Stanford University)
• Rachel Di Cresce (University of Toronto)
• Karen Estlund (Pennsylvania State University)
• Nuno Freire (Europeana)
• Gabrielle Linnell (Folger Shakespeare Library)
• Mark Matienzo (Stanford University)
• Julien A. Raemy (HES-SO, Haute école de gestion de Genève)
• Glen Robson (IIIF)
• Rashmi Singhal (Harvard University)
• Emma Stanford (Oxford Digital Bodleian)
• Pedro Urra (Havana University)

Venue

The conference will be held in Washington DC and registration and details of the conference can be found on the conference website iiif.io/event/2018/washington/.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to iiif-washington [at] googlegroups.com