Is it reasonable for people to be deeply worried about the rapid advances in the field of artificial intelligence? Then, Minden, Ontario’s emergency room is set to close. What are the circumstances and why are hospital closures happening across the province?
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Following the release of the report and recommendations of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery in April 2022, Harvard Radcliffe Institute and other schools across the University are engaging with the legacies of slavery, continuing to excavate the past and understand its contemporary effects.
While the report “uncovers Harvard’s complicity with slavery and its legacies,” it “also recognizes as a part of the University’s history enslaved people of African and Native descent whose contributions have been overlooked” and seeks to amplify stories of “Black resilience, agency, and achievement in the face of persistent discrimination.” In this panel discussion, Black Radcliffe and Harvard alumni from different generations explore and celebrate stories of resistance, excellence, resilience, and change-making from while they were students and after graduation.
Speakers -Beth Chandler ‘88, president and CEO, YW Boston -Antoinette Nwandu ‘02, playwright -Baratunde Thurston ‘99, writer, activist, and comedian -John Woodford ’63, journalist
Moderator Randall L. Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Special Advisor Spencer Jourdain ’61, consultant and writer
This program is presented as part of the Presidential Initiative on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery, a University-wide effort anchored at Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
For information about Harvard Radcliffe Institute and its many public programs, visit https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/.
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Scandal-plagued New York Republican Congressmember George Santos pleaded not guilty to 13 federal charges at a courthouse on Long Island Wednesday. He is charged with wire fraud, money laundering, lying on federal disclosure forms, and fraudulently collecting unemployment benefits while earning a $120,000 salary. Santos has been under investigation since his election to Congress last year exposed his history as a serial liar who fabricated his educational background, employment history and religion. He has thus far refused to step down and has denied the allegations against him. We talk to Mother Jones reporter Noah Lanard, who was in the courtroom and says this indictment is just the beginning of Santos’s legal troubles.
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In the year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, voters in several states have shown up to overwhelmingly support abortion rights in ballot measures. Future efforts to enshrine abortion access in state constitutions could soon face higher hurdles as Republican-controlled legislatures are trying to make it harder. Laura Barrón-López discussed that with Karen Kasler and Gabrielle Hays.
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In the year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, voters in several states have shown up to overwhelmingly support abortion rights in ballot measures. Future efforts to enshrine abortion access in state constitutions could soon face higher hurdles as Republican-controlled legislatures are trying to make it harder. Laura Barrón-López discussed that with Karen Kasler and Gabrielle Hays.
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Stanford University Libraries Digital Library Systems & Services Aug 26, 2016
A demonstration of new features in SearchWorks supporting the International Image Interoperability Framework.
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AmericanRhetoric.com Apr 18, 2011
President George W. Bush – Speech Marking End of Major Combat Operations in Iraq. Delivered aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on 1 May 2003. Complete transcript and audio mp3 at: http://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/…
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The International Image Interoperability Framework is a set of technology standards intended to make it easier for researchers, students and the public at large to view, manipulate, compare and annotate digital images on the web. It has been adopted, or is in the process of being adopted, by many of the world’s great cultural institutions who have been systematically digitizing their collections for years. You can see a partial list of institutions adopting IIIF here.
The goal of IIIF is to make it simple to find images, open them in the web platform of your choice, and easily manipulate them, analyze them and compare them to images from other institutions.
When you see the IIIF logo 
in a search result or record for an image, you know that it is available to use with IIIF-compatible viewers.
When you visit the websites of a digital library, museum or online archive you will often be able to zoom and pan around high resolution images, change their appearance and navigate complex objects like scanned books. The technology in the browser that gives you this ability is what we refer to as an image viewer. The user experience of these viewers varies from site to site, offering you different controls and features. Typically these viewers are set up to only view images from one institution.
A IIIF viewer not only fully supports the IIIF open standard, but is also capable of rendering images from any institution that also supports the standard. For example, the same viewer on a Stanford website can not only open Stanford-hosted images, but also images available on Digital Bodleian.
There are a growing number of viewers that are capable of rendering IIIF-compatible images. See a list of viewers and demos.
Mirador is a IIIF Viewer that was initially developed at Stanford and is now being extended in collaboration with Harvard, the National Gallery of Art and several other institutions from around the world. Mirador is unique in that it allows the user to open multiple images in the same workspace to compare side-by-side and even draw annotations to highlight and describe regions of the image. Try Mirador here.
Play the video at the top of this page to learn how to drag and drop the IIIF icon into Mirador, and then compare it to an image from the Digital Bodleian using the same drag and drop action.
Click here for a quick demonstration of IIIF’s capacity to compare visual documents:
IIIF drag ‘n drop features in
Stanford University Library online catalog
Stanford University Libraries Digital Library Systems & Services Aug 26, 2016
A demonstration of new features in SearchWorks supporting the International Image Interoperability Framework.
For an overview description of how the system works in The Wellcome Library in London see:
For a more complete description of the technology available to IIIF consortium members for use see:
Open Preservation Foundation Apr 29, 2022
The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) is revolutionising access to digital objects of cultural heritage, by providing a standard for viewers and servers to implement. Hundreds of institutions (including many European National Libraries) are making their collections available using the new standard. As well as reducing costs of implementation, the emergence of IIIF for publishing digital objects (digitised books, maps, manuscripts, archives, artworks) is driving innovation and opening up new research possibilities for annotation, crowdsourcing and machine learning across collections. Speaker: Tom Crane, Digirati
and the organization: https://iiif.io/
[N.B. emphasis added for those institutions with
noted Africa map collections]
* indicates Founding Member of the IIIF Consortium
Demonstrations:
IIIF YouTube video channel:
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The International Image Interoperability Framework is a set of technology standards intended to make it easier for researchers, students and the public at large to view, manipulate, compare and annotate digital images on the web. It has been adopted, or is in the process of being adopted, by many of the world’s great cultural institutions who have been systematically digitizing their collections for years. You can see a partial list of institutions adopting IIIF here.
The goal of IIIF is to make it simple to find images, open them in the web platform of your choice, and easily manipulate them, analyze them and compare them to images from other institutions.
When you see the IIIF logo in a search result or record for an image, you know that it is available to use with IIIF-compatible viewers.
When you visit the websites of a digital library, museum or online archive you will often be able to zoom and pan around high resolution images, change their appearance and navigate complex objects like scanned books. The technology in the browser that gives you this ability is what we refer to as an image viewer. The user experience of these viewers varies from site to site, offering you different controls and features. Typically these viewers are set up to only view images from one institution.
A IIIF viewer not only fully supports the IIIF open standard, but is also capable of rendering images from any institution that also supports the standard. For example, the same viewer on a Stanford website can not only open Stanford-hosted images, but also images available on Digital Bodleian.
There are a growing number of viewers that are capable of rendering IIIF-compatible images. See a list of viewers and demos.
Mirador is a IIIF Viewer that was initially developed at Stanford and is now being extended in collaboration with Harvard, the National Gallery of Art and several other institutions from around the world. Mirador is unique in that it allows the user to open multiple images in the same workspace to compare side-by-side and even draw annotations to highlight and describe regions of the image. Try Mirador here.
Play the video at the top of this page to learn how to drag and drop the IIIF icon into Mirador, and then compare it to an image from the Digital Bodleian using the same drag and drop action.
For detailed description see:
and
https://www.youtube.com/@IIIF-Consortium
and the organization itself:
IIIF logo:
and
[N.B. emphasis added for those institutions with
noted Africa map collections]
* indicates Founding Member of the IIIF Consortium
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Transition Studies 