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GitHub - kingsdigitallab/kdl-vqa: Python tool for batch visual question answering (BVQA). Python tool for batch visual question answering (BVQA). - kingsdigitallab/kdl-vqa

for those who attended the IIIF workshop yesterday by @iiif.bsky.social this might be a useful tool to try github.com/kingsdigital... #ff2025 - developed by @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social

Mike

Chelsea

@iiif.bsky.social Editor, Mike Appleby (Yale) & Chelsea Fitzgerald (Yale) discussing “Connecting AI Models & Users to Yale Library Data” at #FF2025 bit.ly/48E4qVK

Day 4 of our DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar! 📅 IIIF Explorer: Never get lost in a #IIIF manifest again—view, download, split, and merge! (With some patience—optimization isn’t part of Vibe coding ;))

advent-calendar.humanities.tools #dh #tei @iiif.bsky.social @imafo-oeaw.bsky.social

screenshot of announcement for Allmaps + IIIF Partnership reading "Open up your map collections: Announcing the Allmaps - IIIF Partnership", with mini, multicolored map outlines and the Allmaps and IIIF logos.

Congratulations to Allmaps (led by @bertspaan.nl & Jules Schoonman) + @iiif.bsky.social on the announcement of this partnership. It's a fantastic step towards a sustainable, open, digital maps infrastructure and data ecosystem.

Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...

Join us for the 2025 Universal Viewer (UV) Annual Conference held online Tues 18 November 2025 14:00-18:00 UTC/GMT. Find out more and book your place: uvcon.io #universalviewer #iiif @iiif.bsky.social @universalviewer.io

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/universal-...

Join us on Wednesday for our November Community Call featuring a demo of DadoCM, a minimal, system-agnostic framework for describing digital objects with archival principles.

Zoom info: iiif.io/community

National Library of New Zealand

National Library of New Zealand

National Library of New Zealand

National Library of New Zealand

Thanks to the @nationallibrarynz.bsky.social for hosting a visit of @iiif.bsky.social staff + me and @glenrobson.bsky.social) today and sharing their experiences and great view of Wellington harbor #ipres2025

@glenrobson.bsky.social presenting on @iiif.bsky.social at our session with @netpreserve.bsky.social , “International Partnerships” at @ipres2025.bsky.social in Wellington, NZ #iPRES2025

IIIF Online Meeting: Working & Learning January 27-29, 2026 iiif.io/event/2026/online-meeting

⏱️ Today's the final day to submit a proposal for the 2026 #IIIF Online Meeting!

Read the CfP and submit: iiif.io/event/2026/o...

📅 La journée d’étude 2025 du Cluster 1 Biblissima+ : « Nouveaux usages de IIIF pour l’enrichissement des collections numériques et la recherche » se tiendra en ligne le 11 décembre.

Retrouvez le programme et le lien d'inscription ici
👉 projet.biblissima.fr/fr/actualite...

@iiif.bsky.social

“Hands on with @iiif.bsky.social: A Pillar in Digital Preservation” at the @ipres2025.bsky.social conference in Wellington, NZ

Great turnout for the “Hands on with @iiif.bsky.social: A Pillar in Digital Preservation” at the @ipres2025.bsky.social conference in Wellington, NZ, 17 people from multiple institutions and countries #iPRES2025 /

IIIF Online Meeting: Working & Learning January 27-29, 2026 iiif.io/event/2026/online-meeting

It's the final weekend to submit a proposal for the 2026 #IIIF Online Meeting.

Read the full CfP here: iiif.io/event/2026/o...

IIIF Online Meeting: Working & Learning, January 27-29, 2026 Link: https://iiif.io/event/2026/online-meeting/

The Call for Proposals for the 2026 #IIIF Online Meeting is OPEN.

The meeting will be held Jan. 27-29, 2026 and is free and open to all. Learn more at: iiif.io/event/2026/o...

The October #IIIF Newsletter is out! Open for:

☑️ IIIF Implementation Survey

🤖 Bot Management

💡 Online Meeting Call for Proposals closes Nov. 3

Read it in full: mailchi.mp/iiif/oct-2025
Sign-up for future newsletters: iiif.io/newsletter/

2025 IIIF Implementation Survey Are you researching, experimenting with, or fully supporting IIIF at your institution? Please help the IIIF Community better understand how IIIF is being adopted across institutions by completing this...

Are you researching, experimenting with, or fully supporting #IIIF at your institution? Please help the IIIF Community better understand how IIIF is being adopted across institutions by completing this quick survey.

forms.gle/PYWJb8VwrXu2...

IIIF Online Meeting: Working & Learning, January 27-29, 2026 Link: https://iiif.io/event/2026/online-meeting/

The Call for Proposals for the 2026 #IIIF Online Meeting is OPEN.

The meeting will be held Jan. 27-29, 2026 and is free and open to all. Learn more at: iiif.io/event/2026/o...

This is wonderful! Please send Gauri our way. We'd love to see her work, maybe at our Online Meeting in January?

Bridging archives: The role of IIIF in global manuscript preservation India’s manuscript tradition is among the richest in the world, spanning centuries, languages, and disciplines. Yet, much of this vast repository remains fragmented, fragile, and inaccessible. The tec...

@rarebookschool.bsky.social doesn't generally accept high school students but they made an exception for Gauri in my Fragmentology class last summer. I am so proud of her! LOOK WHAT SHE DID! #IIIF #MedievalSky timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices...

Our Bot Management Community call is happening TODAY at 12pm ET.

Join us via the Zoom link in our Community Calendar: iiif.io/community

YouTube video by SchoenbergInstitute 17th Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age: Nov. 21, 2024, Keynote

Just noticed that my @sims-mss.bsky.social 2024 Plenary is online, in which I explore the #MedievalManuscript #OpenAccess ecosystem, including @iiif.bsky.social, @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social, Digital Mappa, and the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDwQ...

Join us on October 8 for a conversation about managing bots, including:

🔸 How institutions are managing overwhelming bot traffic;
🔸 the downstream ramifications of those safeguards;
🔸 and possible solutions for keeping IIIF resources available for reuse

Zoom info: iiif.io/community

The next #IIIF Community Call is on 'AI Bot Management', Weds October 8 at 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC. Call links etc at iiif.io/community

What are you doing about bots swarming your GLAM website or IIIF collections? Pros and cons of different approaches? What does this mean for open content? #MuseTech

British Library Explore British Library’s 1,073,564 photos on Flickr!

A semi-regular reminder that all our photos on Flickr Commons are public domain - you don't need to ask us to use them in any way you can imagine! Though we do love hearing about how you've used them, so you can let us know if you want
https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/

An example annotated PDF, before the improvements to our annotator renderer. Annotation highlights are messed up with gaps, uneven lines and overlapping box artefacts.

An example annotated PDF, after the improvements to our annotator renderer. Annotation highlights are now clear, continuous lines.

The Recogito PDF Annotator now applies better post-processing to the annotation highlights.

The differences are subtle. But I like how those gaps, uneven line height and messy overlapping box artefacts are now smoothed into clean, continuous lines.

Before vs. after:

A question for #DigitalArtHistory: If you were to create a small online image database (with IIIF support) right now, which software would you choose? Fylr (ex easydb), Coneda KOR, something completely different?

It was a pleasure to speak at the “What is @iiif.bsky.social ? The Images in Dialogue -project” (bit.ly/48pA6zr) program at the @kansalliskirjasto.fi (18 September) / It was great to meet with staff and to get a special tour of the amazing library spaces

Forms & Function

If you are interested in the history of book, check out this phenomenal exhibit curated by the wonderful Martin Heijdra at Princeton. It is a model exhibit in so many ways, covering different parts of the world, so many languages, and, images are in IIIF
dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-...

The September #IIIF Newsletter is out! Open for:

🔊 CfP for the 2026 Online Meeting
🛠️ New tools
🎨 Van Gogh Worldwide

Read it in full: mailchi.mp/iiif/sept-2025
Sign-up for future newsletters: iiif.io/newsletter/

Starting now

Our September #IIIF Community Call is happening TODAY.

Join us at 12:00pm ET / 16:00 UTC to learn about the PerVisum project.

Zoom info: iiif.io/community