Julien Antoine Raemy

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Data Scientist at Swiss Federal Archives

Digital cultural heritage resources are widely available on the web through the digital libraries of heritage institutions. To address the difficulties of discoverability in cultural heritage, the common practice is metadata aggregation, where centralized efforts like Europeana facilitate discoverability by collecting the resources’ metadata. We pr...

Résumé: La réutilisabilité, et a fortiori la valorisation, des données ouvertes liées (LOD - Linked Open Data ) dans les humanités numériques peut grandement être améliorée en appliquant les principes de conception du Linked Open Usable Data (LOUD) et des standards qui en sont conformes que sont l'API Présentation 3.0 du « cadre international d'in...

This paper addresses the concerns of the digital heritage field by setting out a series of recommendations for establishing a workflow for 3D objects, increasingly prevalent but still lacking a standardized process, in terms of long-term preservation and dissemination. We build our approach on interdisciplinary collaborations together with a compre...

We reflect on some of the preliminary findings of the Participatory Knowledge Practices in Analogue and Digital Image Archives (PIA) research project around annotations of photographic archives from the Swiss Society for Folklore Studies (SSFS) as knowledge practices, the underlying technological decisions, and their impact. The aim is not only to...

This chapter presents the potential of interoperability and standardised data publication for cultural heritage resources, with a focus on community-driven approaches and web standards for usability. The Linked Open Usable Data (LOUD) design principles, which rely on JSON-LD as lingua franca, serve as the foundation. We begin by exploring the sign...

Digital technologies have fundamentally transformed the ways in which Cultural Heritage (CH) collections are accessed and engaged with. Linked Open Usable Data (LOUD) specifications, including the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Presentation API 3.0, Linked Art, and the Web Annotation Data Model (WADM), have emerged as web sta...

The Swiss Federal Archives (SFA) is responsible for the archiving of the administrative records of the federal authorities, in particular the government, the parliament and the administration. Access to and the consultation of records by researchers and the public is a cornerstone of its legal mandate. In order to meet the current and future access...

In our paper, we discuss how the digital domain extends the sustainability of analogue archives through communication with the public. Our interdisciplinary research project “Participatory Knowledge Practices in Analogue and Digital Image Archives” (PIA) is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (2021–2025) and developed in cooperation wit...

This chapter presents the potential of interoperability and standardised data publication for cultural heritage resources, with a focus on community-driven approaches and web standards for usability. The Linked Open Usable Data (LOUD) design principles, which rely on JSON-LD as lingua franca, serve as the foundation. We begin by exploring the signi...

This report presents the findings and analysis of a survey conducted between 24 March and 7 May 2023, exploring the socio-technical characteristics of two prevalent community-driven initiatives in Digital Humanities, namely the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and Linked Art. With 79 participants, the survey investigates the pr...

A collaboration between the Linked Art II project and Participatory Knowledge Practices in Analogue and Digital Image Archives (PIA) has led to a reconfigurable Python-based workflow to transform cultural heritage data, initially photographic collections, into Linked Open Usable Data, as a foundation for varied participatory interfaces supporting s...

The development of a participatory archive platform such as the one being carried out for the PIA research project requires a flexible infrastructure allowing genuine data curation and a robust underlying data model. A strong assumption to achieve this is to primarily leverage Linked Open Usable Data (LOUD) standards, such as IIIF, Linked Art or th...

Digital cultural heritage resources are widely available on the web through the digital libraries of heritage institutions. To address the difficulties of discoverability in cultural heritage, the common practice is metadata aggregation, where centralized efforts like Europeana facilitate discoverability by collecting the resources' metadata. We pr...

Presentation carried out during a master's thesis oral defence at the Haute école de gestion de Genève on 28 August 2020. The recording is available here: https://vimeo.com/453003769

Europeana, a non-profit foundation launched in 2008, aims to improve access to Europe’s digital cultural heritage through its open data platform that aggregates metadata and links to digital surrogates held by over 3700 providers. The data comes both directly from cultural heritage institutions (libraries, archives, museums) as well as through inte...

In this paper we report on efforts to enhance the Swiss persistent identifier (PID) ecosystem. We will firstly describe the current situation and the need for improvement in order to describe in full detail the steps undertaken to create a Swiss-wide model. A case study was undertaken by using several data sets from the domains of art and design in...

Le projet de recherche « Swiss PID Hub : création d’un Hub pour la gestion des identifiants pérennes en Suisse » s’inscrit dans la continuité du projet de recherche de Espasandin, Jaquet et Lefort, étudiantes du Master en Sciences de l’Information (Master of Science HES-SO in Information Science – Master IS) entre 2016 et 2018, qui a permis d’établ...

Ce poster scientifique a été réalisé dans le cadre du Master of Science HES-SO en Sciences de l'information (Master IS) à la Haute école de gestion de Genève (HEG-GE). Ce mandat fait suite au projet de recherche de Kate Espasandin, Aurélie Jaquet et Lise Lefort réalisé en 2018 (étudiantes en Master IS 2016-2018) qui a permis d’établir un panorama...

In the context of the Towards IIIF-Compliance Knowledge in Switzerland (TICKS) project conducted at the Haute école de gestion de Genève, a technical-oriented white paper for Swiss institutions has been published. This white paper, called "Suggested measures for deploying IIIF in Swiss cultural heritage institutions", is based on several use-cases...

This white paper has been written as part of the Towards IIIF-Compliance Knowledge in Switzerland (TICKS) project, conducted at the Haute école de gestion de Genève (HEG-GE) between March 2018 and February 2019, which originated on the acknowledgements that the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) ecosystem was not enough known and...

The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), an initiative born in 2011, defines a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) to retrieve, display, manipulate, compare, and annotate digitised and born-digital images. Upon implementation, these technical specifications have offered institutions and end users alike new poss...

This paper addresses the issue of elaborating a structure for digital video assets based on the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) concepts for the use in archival environments. With a view to tailoring a solution to fit the end user's needs, the dissemination copies of video material could be automatically converted on demand fr...