Julien Antoine RaemyUniversity of Basel | UNIBAS · Digital Humanities Lab
Julien Antoine Raemy
MSc in Information Science
Doing a PhD in Digital Humanities at the University of Basel.
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Introduction
Julien Antoine Raemy currently works at the Digital Humanities Lab of the University of Basel. He does research in Information Interoperability, Digital Preservation, and Linked Open Data. He works closely with the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), notably as a member of the IIIF Technical Review Committee.
Additional affiliations
July 2020 - December 2020
Position
- Engineer
Description
- • Developing an overarching strategy for the integration of IIIF • Implementing IIIF within the system architecture • Carrying out data curation using common target ontologies (CIDOC-CRM, RDF, OWL, SKOS) • Integrating data in alignment with the existing technology stack (ETL process) • Deploying and maintaining research platforms • Representing SARI on relevant expert committees and working groups (IIIF, Linked Art)
August 2017 - January 2021
Position
- Research and Teaching Assistant in Information Science
Description
- • Coordinating the bilingual French-German curriculum of the Bachelor HES in Library and Information Science • Teaching the course "Informations- und Dokumentationssysteme" • Ensuring the hands-on exercises during the courses "User-centered design" and "Linked Open Data in Libraries” • Helping Professor René Schneider with his research projects, assignments, as well as the training sessions that he gives during further education programmes
January 2015 - July 2017
Position
- Photo Archivist for the Montreux Jazz Digital Project
Description
- • Assessing the photography archives and digitizing pictures for the Montreux Jazz Digital Project • Checking the quality process and adding metadata to them on the Montreux Jazz Festival database • Conducting researches and interviews in order to ensure the authenticity and integrity of the records and the added metadata. • Transferring data on our servers and on magnetic tapes (LTO) for long-term preservation • Defining long-term archiving strategies
Education
February 2021 - January 2025
September 2018 - August 2020
September 2013 - July 2017
Field of study
- Library and Information Science
Publications
Publications (23)
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...
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...
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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...
![Figure 1. A "Digitized" Humanities Research Workflow by [7]](publication/373559699/figure/fig1/AS:11431281185233245@1693572160395/A-Digitized-Humanities-Research-Workflow-by-7_Q320.jpg)
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...
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
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...
