J.A. (Jules) Schoonman
J.A. (Jules) Schoonman
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As a digital curator, I'm promoting the use of TU Delft Library's digital special collections in research and education through the development of open source tools with open standards, the initiation of digital scholarship projects and the presentation of results, in both exhibitions on campus and (inter)national networks.
My work is focussed on the implementation, usage and extension of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), a set of standards that ease access to digital image assets across institutions.
Together with Bert Spaan, I founded Allmaps in 2020, a platform for curating, georeferencing and exploring digitised maps that are available through the specifications of IIIF. Further development of the Allmaps Viewer was funded by Stichting Pica in 2022-23 as part of a larger project of the Dutch Digital Heritage Network. At the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, I initiated the use of Allmaps in education.
In collaboration with Digirati I've developed tools for curating and presenting digital exhibitions composed of IIIF resources. These have been used to create digital editions of physical exhibitions, that were published on TU Delft's academic heritage portal. The tools aim to open up exhibition-making to a wider audience, such as students and educators.