@inproceedings{01GKKJCGD04J4MC0KW35FDW3XW,
  abstract     = {{The benefits of IIIF for Digital Humanities (DH) scholarship are well known: accessibility to images, metadata and annotation possibilities, and ample visual display options. However, whilst the cultural heritage sector and DH research centers have broadly adopted IIIF, its integration into teaching practices has remained rather limited. At the same time, DH scholars are calling for more extensive adoption of their field within Humanities scholarship. Teaching DH requires a hybrid approach covering various digital tools to assist research, educational, and science communication purposes, which is often accompanied by underscoring the usefulness, openness, diversity, and collaboration-possibilities of the tools in question (Batterhill & Ross, 2017). Rather than learn a fixed set of computational hard skills, students need to contextualize digital technologies, adopt a tool-critical attitude and apply them to a domain-specific context (Armaselu, 2021; Kuhn, 2019).

IIIF is therefore a common denominator in Ghent Centre For Digital Humanities’ educational innovation project to structurally embed DH and sustainably enhance digital competences within the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, including teacher education. Not only does IIIF’s flexibility and compliance with various DH applications greatly assist a provisioned hybrid approach of teaching, but the open image-standard also ‘stitches together technology’ for DH overall (Emanuel, 2018). This presentation, which is based on various classroom-case studies, focus group discussions, and questionnaires, explores how IIIF helped foster a shared faculty-wide framework for basic and advanced digital competences of students, (prospective) teachers, and faculty staff. Ranging from teacher education to art history and Lingala language, diverse courses found common ground in IIIF and compatible tools, such as Madoc, Omeka S, Storiiies and Exhibit.so. Blended learning modules that combined workshops, video tutorials, manuals, best practices, and literature provided assistance during the courses. This presentation discusses how IIIF allowed teachers and students to relate DH to their domain-specific knowledge, and how this resulted in a more widespread integration of both IIIF and DH across Ghent University.}},
  author       = {{Foket, Lise and Verbeke, Davy and Rombaut, Eef and Ducatteeuw, Vincent and Lamsens, Frederic and Verbruggen, Christophe}},
  booktitle    = {{IIIF Conference 2022, Abstracts}},
  keywords     = {{Digital Humanities,International Image Interoperability Framework,Digital History}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  location     = {{Cambridge (US)}},
  title        = {{Using IIIF to teach Digital Humanities : practice-oriented approach to digital literacy skills}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6671274}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}

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