Books are inherently transient objects; they are given as gifts, buried, burned, stolen, loaned and sold. The tracing of the movement of an individual volume is invariably the subject of countless hours of provenance research as sale records, faded and erased inscriptions, and the handwriting of those long deceased is identified, localised and dated. In […]
Organizers: Anne McLaughlin (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge), Martin Hinze and Saher Semaan (UB Freiburg) IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework") is a protocol for the interoperable and sustainable use of digital image-based resources, which until now have often been stored in local 'silos' and thus are not always easily accessible for collaborative work. In recent years, […]