April 20, 2022 | 14h30 – 18h00 | Online

IIIF Reader: Multilevel Visualization Research.

A Workshop to Explore and Annotate Image Collections at Different Scales

Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, Max Planck Institute for Art History

The IIIF Reader is a tool designed for annotating and visualizing images through the International Image Interoperability Framework, this workshop aims at presenting and using it.

Attendees are first introduced to the design process, focusing on the needs that the digital tool is intended to tackle. Then, attendees are invited to test the digital tool by using its functionalities such as image annotation and visualization browsing. The goal is to stress the application to discuss short-term fixes and long-term visions in order to envision the next version of the digital tool. The workshop is indicated for scholars interested to annotate diagrams and more generally images by exploring innovative ways of working at micro (details), meso (images), and macro (sets) scales.

Speakers

• Alberto Romele (Tübingen University)
• Benjamin Kozlowski (Independent)
• Celeste Pedro  (Porto University)
• Chris Pietsch (Potsdam University)
• Christoph Sander (Bibliotheca Hertziana)
• Dario Rodighiero (Bibliotheca Hertziana)
• José Higuera (Porto University)
• Matteo Azzi (Calibro)
• Stephanie J. Lahey (University of Toronto)

Workshop Program

14:30 – 14:45 | Dario Rodighiero, Welcome

14:45 – 15:15 | José Higuera & Alberto Romele, Introduction to the project From Data to Wisdom

15:15 – 15:45 | Celeste Pedro, A Workshop Annotation of Diagrams

15:45 – 16:15 | Matteo Azzi, Introduction to the software IIIF Reader

Break

16:30 – 17:00 | Chris Pietsch, Interface Design and Visualization

17:00 – 17:30 | Christoph Sander, Rara Magnetica: Imagery related to magnetism up to 1700

17:30 – 18:00 | Stephanie Lahey & Benjamin Kozlowski, TBA

Discussion

Scientific Organization:

José Higuera is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto and the Principal Investigator of the project From Data to Wisdom. His career as a researcher begins as a founding member of the Instituto Brasileiro Raimundo Lúlio (São Paulo-Barcelona). He developed his doctoral and postdoctoral studies in Spain, Germany and Brazil. His research is outlined by the study of conceptual transformations in the history of science and philosophy from a long-term perspective.

Celeste Pedro is a communication designer who graduated at the Fine Arts Faculty in Porto. She did her Masters in Design and Intermedia at the University of Barcelona. In the past years, she specialized in early printed books and palaeography while conducting her PhD research on History of Portuguese Print Culture in the Sixteenth Century, funded by FCT. She is currently a postdoc research fellow for the project From Data to Wisdom at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto.

Dario Rodighiero is a designer with an academic background, working at the intersection of knowledge design, digital humanities, and artificial intelligence. He is a senior affiliate with the metaLAB, and affiliated with the Berkman Klein Centerat Harvard University. In Rome, he is a visiting scholar at Bibliotheca Hertziana; in Paris, he works as a lecturer at Pantheon-Sorbonne University. The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne awarded him a Ph.D. in Science.

Alberto Romele is research associate at the IZEW, the International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities. He has been associate professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of Lille and post-doc of the FCT at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto. His research focuses on philosophy of technology, digital hermeneutics, and technological imaginaries. He is the author of the monograph Digital Hermeneutics (Routledge 2020).

Image: The IIIF Reader presenting the IIIF Collection (Copyright FDTW)

Organization
Projet From Data to Wisdom. Philosophizing Data Visualizations in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity (13th-17th Century) FCT - POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029717
José Higuera Rubio - Investigador Principal FDTW-FCT-Universidade do Porto
José Francisco Meirinhos - Co-Investigador Principal FDTW-FCT-Universidade do Porto
Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto - FIL/00502
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)