Julien A. Raemy is an expert in Cultural Heritage and Digital Preservation. He currently works as a Digital Archiving Project Manager at docuteam. He completed his PhD in 2024 at the Digital Humanities Lab of the University of Basel with a dissertation on Linked Open Usable Data (LOUD). Previously, he earned an MSc in Information Science from the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO).

In addition, he is actively engaged in the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Community and is a member of the Linked Art Editorial Board.

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Research areas:

  • Cultural Heritage
  • Digital Preservation
  • Information Interoperability
  • Linked Open Data (LOD)
  • Science and Technologies Studies (STS)

Publications:

Raemy, J. A. (2024). Linked Open Usable Data for Cultural Heritage: Perspectives on Community Practices and Semantic Interoperability [Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel]. https://doi.org/10.5451/unibas-ep96807

Raemy, J. A., & Sanderson, R. (2024). Analysis of the Usability of Automatically Enriched Cultural Heritage Data. In F. Moral-Andrés, E. Merino-Gómez, & P. Reviriego (Eds.), Decoding Cultural Heritage: A Critical Dissection and Taxonomy of Human Creativity through Digital Tools (S. 69–93). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57675-1_4

Sauvage, A., & Raemy, J. A. (2024). Multimodal UI for Video Retrieval at the Swiss Federal Archives. In J. Baudry, L. Burkart, B. Joyeux-Prunel, E. Kurmann, M. Mähr, E. Natale, C. Sibille, & M. Twente (Eds.), Digital History Switzerland 2024 Book of Abstracts. https://digihistch24.github.io/submissions/poster/440/

Cornut, M., Raemy, J. A., & Spiess, F. (2023). Annotations as Knowledge Practices in Image Archives: Application of Linked Open Usable Data and Machine Learning. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 16(4), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3625301

Felsing, U., Fornaro, P., Frischknecht, M., & Raemy, J. A. (2023). Community and Interoperability at the Core of Sustaining Image Archives. Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 5(1), 40–54. https://doi.org/10.5617/dhnbpub.10649

Manz, M. C., Raemy, J. A., & Fornaro, P. (2023). Recommended 3D Workflow for Digital Heritage Practices. Archiving Conference, 20, 23–28. https://doi.org/10.2352/issn.2168-3204.2023.20.1.5

Raemy, J. A. (2023). Characterising the IIIF and Linked Art Communities: Survey report (S. 29) [Bericht]. Universität Basel. https://doi.org/10.5451/unibas-ep95340

Raemy, J. A., & Demleitner, A. (2023). Implementation of the IIIF Presentation API 3.0 based on Software Support: Use Case of an Incremental IIIF Deployment within a Citizen Science Project. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2312.11116

Raemy, J. A., & Gautschy, R. (2023). Élaboration d'un processus pour les images 3D reposant sur IIIF. In S. Gabay, E. Leblanc, N. Carboni, R. Suciu, G. Lini, M. Barras, & F. Idmhand (Eds.), Recueil des communications du 4e colloque Humanistica (S. 1–3). Humanistica, l'association francophone des humanités numériques/digitales. https://doi.org/10.5451/unibas-ep94862

Raemy, J. A., Gray, T., Collinson, A., & Page, K. R. (2023). Enabling Participatory Data Perspectives for Image Archives through a Linked Art Workflow. In A. Baillot, W. Scholger, T. Tasovac, & G. Vogeler (Eds.), Digital Humanities 2023 Book of Abstracts (Vol. 2023, S. 515–516). Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). https://doi.org/10.5451/unibas-ep95099

Raemy, J. A. (2022). Améliorer la valorisation des données du patrimoine culturel grâce au Linked Open Usable Data (LOUD). In N. Lasolle, O. Bruneau, & J. Lieber (Eds.), Actes des journées humanités numériques et Web sémantique (S. 132–149). Les Archives Henri-Poincaré - Philosophie et Recherches sur les Sciences et les Technologies (AHP-PReST); Laboratoire lorrain de recherche en informatique et ses applications (LORIA). https://doi.org/10.5451/unibas-ep89725

Freire, N., Meijers, E., de Valk, S., Raemy, J. A., & Isaac, A. (2021). Metadata Aggregation via Linked Data: Results of the Europeana Common Culture Project. In E. Garoufallou & M.-A. Ovalle-Perandones (Eds.), Metadata and Semantic Research (S. 383–394). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71903-6_35

Raemy, J. A. (2020). Enabling better aggregation and discovery of cultural heritage content for Europeana and its partner institutions [Master's Thesis, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Haute école de gestion de Genève]. https://sonar.ch/hesso/documents/315109

Raemy, J. A., & Schneider, R. M. (2019). Towards Trusted Identities for Swiss Researchers and their Data. International Journal of Digital Curation, 14(1), 303–314. https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v14i1.596

Raemy, J. A., & Schneider, R. (2019). Suggested measures for deploying IIIF in Swiss cultural heritage institutions [White paper]. Haute école de gestion de Genève. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2640416

Raemy, J. A., & Schneider, R. (2019). Les métiers des données: À l'intérieur, à l'extérieur et entre les mondes de la bibliothéconomie et de l'archivistique. Hors-Texte, 2019(117), 46–52. https://arodes.hes-so.ch/record/4063

Raemy, J. A. (2018). IIIF ou comment enfin valoriser ses images numériques de manière optimale et interopérable. Hors-Texte, 2018(115), 22–32. https://arodes.hes-so.ch/record/2394

Raemy, J. A., Fornaro, P., & Rosenthaler, L. (2017). Implementing a Video Framework based on IIIF: A Customized Approach from Long-Term Preservation Video Formats to Conversion on Demand. Archiving Conference, 14, 68–73. https://doi.org/10.2352/issn.2168-3204.2017.1.0.68

Raemy, J. A. (2017). The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF): Raising awareness of the user benefits for scholarly editions [Bachelor's Thesis, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Haute école de gestion de Genève]. https://sonar.ch/hesso/documents/314853