The document discusses how the NewsEye European Project uses IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) to disseminate research results from analyzing digitized historical newspapers. It describes how NewsEye uses IIIF to display thumbnails and pages from newspapers. The project also exposes corpora and researcher datasets as IIIF collections to facilitate access and reuse of the data. Storytelling tools like Exhibit are highlighted as ways for researchers to showcase collections and narratives to the public.

1. IIIF for Interoperability and
Dissemination of Research
Results
The NewsEye European Project Use Case
Axel Jean-Caurant (Université de La Rochelle)
Guillaume Michez (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
Jean-Philippe Moreux (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
Nejma Omari (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3)
This project has received funding from the
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme under grant agreement No
770299.

2. The NewsEye Project
Motivations
● Tens of millions of pages are digitized in various languages.
● Our objective is to support qualitative and quantitative analysis of newspaper data for the humanities.
● We want to develop tools specific to the analysis of
historical press.
● Project website: https://www.newseye.eu
● Demonstrator: https://platform.newseye.eu

3. The NewsEye Project
Organisation
8 partners in 4 countries:
● University of La Rochelle (CS)
● National library of Austria
● University of Helsinki (CS, Humanities, National library)
● University of Innsbruck (CS, Humanities)
● National library of France
● University of Rostock (CS)
● University of Montpellier (Humanities)
● University of Vienna (Humanities
More than 180,000 issues from 20 newspapers,
from 1850 to 1950.

4. The NewsEye platform

5. The NewsEye platform

6. IIIF in the NewsEye project
● As a consumer:
- Thumbnails in
search results
- Viewer in
documents
show page

7. IIIF in the NewsEye project
● As a consumer:
- Thumbnails in
search results
- Viewer in
documents
show page
● As a producer:
- IIIF Image server
for documents from
the National Library
of Finland
- Articles as annotations
- Named entities as tags

8. Dissemination of Research Results
● Heritage institutions can
disseminate more metadata
with IIIF
● Researchers can share
annotations and transcriptions
● Institutions may wish to benefit
from the work of researchers
DH Team #1: NewsEye project

9. Corpora as IIIF Collections
National or thematic corpora
used by the project are
described as IIIF collections.
● Instant access to the
data and reuse (parsing,
scripting...)
● Browsing in any IIIF
viewer (for humans)
● Can be accessed
through a server or
archived as research
data (dumps, datasets)
NewsEye French dataset of periodicals (Mirador 3)
Le Matin (1936)

10. Researcher Datasets as IIIF Collections
NewsEye Dataset
● Still a work-in-progress
● Exports document manifest
as a IIIF collection
● Two layers of annotations will
be included in the manifests:
○ All articles in the issue
○ Only articles that are
part of the dataset

11. Storytelling for Digital Humanities
How can researchers in humanities and social sciences
showcase digital collections ?
● A challenge for any researcher who wishes to publicize research results
to the general public
● Different ways to showcase: examples from the NewsEye project

12. Storytelling for Digital Humanities
Exhibit: a IIIF storytelling tool for an interactive experience
● Shareable, image-based stories through
annotation and deep zoom
● A tool developed by Mnemoscene with support
from the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund
● A project initiated during the Covid-19 pandemic
to meet the needs of The University of
St. Andrews in online and on-campus teaching
● Use of universal Viewer, an open source IIIF viewer
Other tools: Storiiies (Cogapp), Tesselle (Médialab SciencesPo)...

13. Storytelling for Digital Humanities
https://exhibit.so/exhibits/lJBQVwAjXirDsniiWhI5
An example of narration from a blogpost
● For Newseye, links between the media
treatment of the Coronavirus crisis and, 100
years earlier, that of the “spanish flu”
● Narration from blogpost about remedies claiming
to work miracles against the 1918 flu, available
in French on Gallica blog.
● Issues from the daily (Le Matin, Le Gaulois) and
weekly press (Le Pêle-mêle, La Baïonnette,
Le Régiment)
Nejma
Omari

14. Storytelling for Digital Humanities
https://exhibit.so/exhibits/eqQM5fzMPvpRc3wjnX7t
Another example based on NewsEye case studies
● Case studies about gender, especially about
women rights through the press of the 19th
century
● Many blogposts and articles produced on the
right to wear pants, to vote or to practice
journalism for women
● Example of a blogpost written for Gallica’s blog
about abortion (published for Simone Veil law
anniversary)
Nejma
Omari

15. Storytelling for Digital Humanities
A tool to explore the medium specificities
https://exhibit.so/exhibits/jXYUORB0yxW2rZYGRFvg
● Show how newspapers are composed
● Explore the different journalistic
forms and sections
● Identify changes in the layouts

16. Thanks!
Resources:
● https://platform.newseye.eu
● https://github.com/altomator/IIIF/b
lob/main/collection
jean-philippe.moreux@bnf.fr
axel.jean-caurant@univ-lr.fr
nejma.omari@univ-montp3.fr
guillaume.michez@bnf.fr

17. Searchable text
Searching in the OCR produced by the
project, within a corpora or dataset,
can be implemented using the IIIF
Search API.