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IIIFAccess to the World’s images
Almost Christmas 2015Sylvia Van Peteghem
How come we’re involved ?
Ghent University
Ghent Gand Gent
° beginning 19th century
Today 41.000 students
9.000 personnel
11 faculties
Ghent University Library
Large cultural heritage collection thanks to
French revolution 1789 and special chief librarians 19th C
Strong IT team
Wonderful building
Reorganisation 2003
Collections
horticulture ?middle ages ?ephemera ?architecture ?
Focus on architecture2004-2009
Goal: make collections visible (metadata, scanning) and
open for research
No project money
Kill your darlings
library: logisticsresearchers: research
museum: museum
Projects
Recollecting Landscapes
We learned to digitize …
40.000 “topo”pictures
Google said yes (Stanford …)
250.000 books 140.000 page views/day
If Google can, we can
Ghent university said yes
We learned a lot got some skillsknow better what we have know better what we can (and what we can’t)
To keep moving you need people with ideas, content, drive, skills in metadata, scanning, IT.
But also collections and infrastructure.
And a public.
Ready for new dreams …
One of these dreams
1904
1980
2004
2014
In between
You cannot imagine how long it took me …