Libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage organizations are dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to a wonderful milieu of research, historical, and cultural resources around the world.
We are all living through yet another transformative era when the fundamental drivers of Internet content creation, curation, and reuse are shifting as massive Machine Learning (ML; and sometimes also termed AI) applications reform our shared digital landscape. In response to these shifting sands, professionals in the overlapping fields of Library and Information, Museum, and Computer Sciences need to rethink the ways we can best provide quality research and reuse interactions for our richly described content shared through digital repository environments. The unregulated consumption of data and resources by ML/AI-powered bots and harvesters is increasingly more tenuous and challenges our well established ideas of what openness means.
We strongly believe in the value of creating consensus and shared practices in our own community for combating this significant challenge.
This Github repository is dedicated to the creation and management of specialized, standardized tags and rights/access statements to be used within the metadata records and schemas applied when sharing digital repository and/or collections content.
The first set of these specialized tags was proposed during the 2024 IIIF Annual Conference, for use within IIIF Manifests.
The enclosing IIIF folder in this repository will serve as a working studio space for initial creation and editing, while working with the IIIF Community towards a IIIF Cookbook Recipe Set.
This repository created and maintained by Allison Sherrick, Digital Projects and Services Manager at the Metropolitan New York Library Council.