CIDOC 2017 IIIF Pharos Tom Scutt Paul Mellon Centre: IIIF presentation by Tom Scutt, Digital Manager, Paul Mellon Centre, London, UK at the #CIDOC2017 conference on the use of IIIF by the PHAROS International Consortium of Photo Archives pharosartresearch.org

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Tom Scutt
tscutt@paul-mellon-
centre.ac.uk
“Photo Archives are
Sleeping Beauties”
Unlocking images with IIIF

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PHAROS
bit.ly/pharos-archive
An international consortium of fourteen art historical photo archives
committed to creating a digital research platform allowing for
comprehensive consolidated access to photo archive images and their
associated scholarly documentation.
Institutional commitments:
- Making collections images available in a IIIF compliant format
- Mapping to – and publishing collections data in – the CIDOC Conceptual Reference
Model

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PHAROS
Left: Paul Mellon Centre photographic archive boxes
Right: Inge Reist, Frick Art Reference Library, among the Frick’s photographic archive collections bit.ly/pharos-archive

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Mount from the Paul Mellon Centre
photograph archive depicting Johan
Zoffany, Asaf-ud-daula, Nawab Wazir of
Oudh, 1784, oil on canvas.

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Mount depicting Richard Wilson, The Destruction of Niobe’s Children, c.1760, oil on canvas.
Destroyed 1944. Formerly collection of National Gallery, London, transferred to Tate Gallery 1919.

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Mounts depicting Richard Wilson, Cicero’s Villa, 1760–3, oil on canvas, before and after cleaning and removal of overpaint.
Painting in collection of Manchester City Galleries (inv. 1897.1)

7. Image
Server
Recto Verso Meta
Manifest
bit.ly/iiif-introduction

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John Martin, The Destruction of Pompei and Herculaneum, 1822, extensively damaged
in a flood 1928, restored 2011, oil on canvas.
Painting in collection of Tate Gallery (inv. N00793)
canvas
2011, post-conservation
2008, pre-conservation
bit.ly/iiif-viewers

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British School, Classical Landscape with Mountains, c.1720–40, oil on canvas.
Painting in collection of Tate Gallery (inv. N02982) bit.ly/iiif-vam

10. Mirador Viewer bit.ly/iiif-mirador

11. Universal Viewer bit.ly/iiif-uv

12. Digitisation: Imaging Front and Back of Mount

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Summary of responses to PHAROS user survey conducted by Meredith Hale, Yale
University

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“What type of information do you seek when consulting a photo
archive?”
Summary of responses to PHAROS user survey conducted by Meredith Hale, Yale
University

16. dlcs.io
Digital Library Cloud Services system diagram

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Matt McGrattan, Digirati, preview of some natural language
processing work to drive search, discovery and analysis of digitised
artifacts using the DLCS for Indigenous Digital Archives resources bit.ly/digirati-semantic

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DLCS

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Detail of mount depicting Richard Wilson, Cicero’s Villa, 1760–3, oil on canvas.
Painting in collection of Manchester City Galleries (inv. 1897.1)

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Screenshot from DLCS ‘capture profile’ prototype for the National Library of Wales

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LinkedArt linked.art
Getty Photo Archive mapping for ‘the photograph’

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Detail of mount depicting Richard Wilson, Cicero’s Villa, 1760–3, oil on canvas, before and after cleaning and removal of over
Painting in collection of Manchester City Galleries (inv. 1897.1)
E45
E38
E35
P62
P43
E30 E10
?
P7 P14 P4

23. Tom Scutt
tscutt@paul-mellon-
centre.ac.uk
dlcs.io
bit.ly/iiif-slack
linked.art
bit.ly/iiif-vam
bit.ly/iiif-uv
bit.ly/digirati-semantic
bit.ly/iiif-mirador
bit.ly/iiif-viewers
bit.ly/pharos-archive
bit.ly/iiif-introduction