CIDOC 2017 IIIF Royal Museum for Central Africa: IIIF presentation by Dieter van Hassel, Information Manager, Cultural anthropology & history, Archives and collection management, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium at the #CIDOC2017 conference.

1. Royal Museum for Central Africa

3. Dr. Livingstone, I presume?

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5. “… to bring civilization to
Congo …”
“all ‘bout the money”

6. 1908: Belgian Congo
1960: Congo
1965: Zaïre
1997: Democratic Republic of the Congo
° 1885: Congo Free State

7. The Royal Museum for Central Africa
1897: World Fair in Brussels

8. The Royal Museum for Central Africa
1910: Museum of the Belgian Congo

9. The Royal Museum for Central Africa
1960: The Royal Museum for Central Africa

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13. … a Federal Scientific Institute

14. … research and
knowledge dissemination
… past and present
societies and natural
environments …
… to a better
understanding and interest
… to contribute to its
sustainable development.

15. • 150 000 ethnographic objects
– 8 000 musical instruments
• 10 000 000 zoological specimens
• 3 km of archives
– Archives of H.M. Stanley
• 1 000 000 historical photos
• 3 000 historical maps
• 56 000 tropical wood samples
• 15 000 rock samples and minerals
• 300 000 aerial photographs
• 2500 satellite images

18. Clearly an ethnographic
object!
Musical instrument!
Historical object!

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23. Challenges
• Manifest creation – user generated manifests
• 3D
• A/V
• Raise user awareness
• Implement Annotations
• Bring all collections to IIIF, including online

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More info
IIIF:
• http://www.iiif.io
• https://github.com/IIIF/awesome-iiif
Universal Viewer
• http://universalviewer.io/
Mirador
• http://projectmirador.org/
Slack
3D
• https://www.gitbook.com/book/sophiedixon/photogrammetry-
guide/details