Speaker
Christian Mahnke (Speaker) Collector, Projektemacher.org
Description
IIIF is well established at large organisations like libraries that host thousands of digitized books. But how about the other end of the scale: Small and personal blogs or homepages?
These personal blogs may choose to do only partial digitisation of printed material, may have various different content or media types and might choose to avoid providing extensive metadata, due to either lack of knowledge or resource constrains. They also have different infrastructural requirements: Since there is no team involved, the available know-how is limited, hosting and computation should be doable within the constrains of free providers, ideally the result would be just a static web site.
The following example sites have been created as “Corona side projects”:
• Blaufußtölpel – old fashion magazines – in German
• Vorsatzpapier – end- and wall papers – in German and English
• Backsteinexpressionismus – brick expressionism – in German
The proposed submission presents a Hugo (a static site generator) based workflow to generate a web site and the required IIIF Presentation API manifests and uses GitHub for computation (like generation of static IIIF Image API derivates) and hosting. It will show how the given constrains influenced the choice of tools and how to overcome some of the encountered limitations. The focus will be on technical issues and solutions.
The presentation will conclude with lessons learned about IIIF itself and proposes several improvements required to foster adoption for small scale projects.
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