IIIF for Educators

Lab Activity: Curating for a Group Project

💡 Concept

Think Like a Curator

A curator selects and interprets works for an exhibit.  Curating a number of digital items (from the items in the Course Spreadsheet- in tab: "Group and Info of the Selected Items") into your group project (a digital exhibit in an online platform) in a collaborative effort requires your collective conception of your project topic and the substances from selected items.

🖥️ Activity

Working with your group members, this activity is to utilize the method of comparative analysis for all of the selected items from all the group members (see them in the Course Spreadsheet- in tab: "Group and Info of the Selected Items"). The the group decides the topic and the title of the group project, and select curated items into the Course Spreadsheet - in tab: "Group Curated Items."

🧱 Materials

Project digital items in the Course spreadsheet - in tab: "Groups and Selected Items."

🛠️ Tools

The Mirador viewer.

🪜 Steps

1. Use Mirador for comparative analysis. First, open Mirador viewer in another tab.
2. Click "+START HERE" (at the upper left corner), click " + ADD RESOURCES" (lower right corner), then put an item's IIIF Manifest URL in the Resource location, and "Add."
3. Repeat Step 2 until all the items are in the list.
4. Open items in the view and discuss their connections, differences, similarities.
5. Repeat Step 4 until you reach a consensus of an overarching theme that can thread through at least 6 items.
6. Write down the overarching theme as your Group Project Topic.
7. List all these 6 items' info in the Columns E-G in the Course Spreadsheet: item title, Page URL, III Image URL, IIIF Manifest URL, and the relevance to the overarching theme.
8. Decide a tentative topic and title for your Group Project in Columns C-D.