CV
Below are a selected list of things I am doing or that I have done. See here my preferred pronouns and how to pronounce my name.
Experience
July 2020 - December 2020: Knowledge Graph Engineer / IIIF Systems Architect for the Swiss Art Research Infrastructure (SARI) at the University of Zurich
- Developing an overarching strategy for the integration of IIIF
- Implementing IIIF within the system architecture
- Carrying out data curation using common target ontologies (CIDOC-CRM, RDF, OWL, SKOS)
- Integrating data in alignment with the existing technology stack (ETL process)
- Deploying and maintaining research platforms
- Representing SARI on relevant expert committees and working groups (IIIF, Linked Art)
August 2017 - January 2021: Research and Teaching Assistant in Information Science at the HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Haute école de gestion de Genève (HEG-GE)
- Coordinating the bilingual French-German curriculum of the BSc in Information Science
- Teaching the course “Informations- und Dokumentationssysteme” and ensuring the hands-on exercises during the “User-centred design” and “Linked Open Data in Libraries” courses
- Helping Professor René Schneider with his research projects, assignments, as well as the training sessions that he gives during further education programmes
- Two-day continuing training courses on “Web Usability” at the CERN in 2017 and for members of the Handschriftenportal (HSP) project in 2019
- Moderation of the “Rolle der Schweizerischen Nationalbibliothek (NB) in der digitalen Gesellschaft” (Role of the Swiss National Library (NL) in the digital society) workshop on 05.12.2018
- User Friendly Online Services for Scientific Information (UFO) assignments with the Fachhochschule Graubünden (FHGR)
- Conducting research, reporting and presentations, as well as developing models and approaches for assigning persistent identifiers as part of the “Identités de confiance pour les données de l’art et du design” (ICOPAD) project in partnership with the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA), the Zentralbibliothek Zürich and the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
- Coordinating the “Towards IIIF-Compliance Knowledge in Switzerland” (TICKS) project and the uptake of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) in Switzerland
- Coordinating the “Infrastructure Nationale d’un Complément d’Identifiants Pérennes, Interopérables et Traçables” (INCIPIT) project aimed at developing an Archival Resource Key (ARK) allocation service in Switzerland.
January 2015 - July 2017: Photo Archivist for the Montreux Jazz Digital Project at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Cultural Heritage & Innovation Center (previously MetaMedia Center)
- Assessing the photography archives and digitizing pictures for the Montreux Jazz Digital Project
- Checking the quality process and adding metadata to them on the Montreux Jazz Festival database
- Conducting research and interviews in order to ensure the authenticity and integrity of the records and the added metadata.
- Transferring data on our servers and on magnetic tapes (LTO) for long-term preservation
- Conducting guided tours for artists, sponsors, and friends during the festival in Claude Nobs’ Chalet in Caux where the original audiovisual records are stored.
- Defining long-term archiving strategies
- Writing a report on Semantic Web technologies
- Collating anecdotes for the Montreux Jazz Heritage Lab II designed by the EPFL+ECAL Lab
- Taking part in conferences and working group sessions such as iPRES, IIIF and Museomix
August 2016 - October 2016: University Intern at the University of Basel, Digital Humanities Lab
- Doing a survey and writing a report about the criteria for standard digital video formats for long-term preservation (based on the recommendations from IASA, FADGI and Memoriav)
- Conducting video transcoding tests with FFmpeg
- Writing up a conference paper which demonstrate the benefits of elaborating a structure for digital video assets based on the IIIF concepts for the use in archival environments
Memberships
International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF)
- Since February 2019: IIIF Technical Review Committee Community Representative
- Since September 2017: IIIF Code of Conduct Team Member
- January 2018 - September 2019: IIIF Outreach Community Group Co-Chair
ARKs in the Open (AITO) Project
- Since April 2020: AITO NAAN Registry Working Group Member
- Since April 2020: AITO Technical Working Group Member
- Since January 2020: AITO Outreach Working Group Member
Bibliosuisse
formerly “Bibliothèque Information Suisse” (BIS)
- Since March 2014: Member
Association genevoise des bibliothécaires et professionnels diplômés en information documentaire (AGBD)
- Since May 2018: Member
Fri-Son
- Since October 2010: Member
- September 2013 - July 2016: Bar Manager
- September 2010 - August 2013: Bartender
Association des amis de la Maison d’Ailleurs (AMDA)
- Since January 2008: Member
Education
- 2018-2020: Master of Science in Information Science at the HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Haute école de gestion de Genève
- 2013-2017: Bachelor of Science in Library and Information Science at the HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Haute école de gestion de Genève
- 2010-2011: Professional Business Baccalaureate (“Maturité professionnelle commerciale”) at the Ecole professionnelle artisanale et commerciale (EPAC)
- 2005-2008: Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training - Bookseller (“Certificat fédéral de capacité de libraire”) at the Ecole professionnelle commerciale de Lausanne (EPCL)
Projects
- January 2020 to December 2020: Infrastructure Nationale d’un Complément d’Identifiants Pérennes, Interopérables et Traçables (INCIPIT)
- March 2018 to February 2019: Towards IIIF-Compliance Knowledge in Switzerland (TICKS)
- June 2017 to December 2018: Identités de confiance pour les données de l’art et du design (ICOPAD)
Workshops, assignments and mandates
- 11 November 2019: Research Data Literacy : acquérir des compétences
pour la gestion des données de la recherche One-day workshop given in the context of the Bibliosuisse’s continuing education programme at Bibliomedia, Lausanne
- 30 September - 1 October 2019: User centred design for the Handschriftenportal project Two-day workshop given in the context of the creation of the Handschriftenportal, a DFG-funded project, at the Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin)
- 15 May 2019: Bern IIIF Showcase Event - presentations, moderation and organization of the event at the Swiss National Library as part of the TICKS project
- 5 December 2018: The role of the Swiss National Library in the digital society (Rolle der National Bibliothek in der digitalen Gesellschaft) - presentations, moderation of the workshop and summary of the results
- 21 June 2018: Data Professionals Day - presentation, moderation of questions and organization of the half-day event with Professor René Schneider as part of the 100th anniversary of training in Information sciences in Geneva (100 ID)
- 27-28 November 2017: Web Usability Two-day workshop given at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
- Since October 2017: User Friendly Online Services for Scientific Information (UFO), a mandate funded by swissuniversities-p5, in collaboration with the Fachhochschule Graubünden
. Assessed projects: SWITCH Swiss edu-ID (2018), Enhancer (2018), SWITCHhub (2019), histHub (2019)
Publications
- RAEMY, Julien Antoine. Vers la fin d’OAI-PMH pour Europeana ?. Bibliosuisse INFO. 2020. Vol. 2, no. 4, p. 10. ISSN 2624-8646
- RAEMY, Julien Antoine. Enabling better aggregation and discovery of cultural heritage content for Europeana and its partner institutions. Master’s thesis. Geneva, Switzerland : HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2020.
- CEVEY, Matthieu, RAEMY, Julien Antoine and SCHNEIDER, René (dir). Swiss PID Hub : Création d’un Hub pour la gestion des identifiants pérennes en Suisse. Geneva, Switzerland : HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2020.
- RAEMY, Julien Antoine, SCHNEIDER, René. Towards Trusted Identities for Swiss Researchers and their Data. International Journal of Digital Curation (IJDC). 11 September 2019. Vol. 14, no. 1, p. 303–314. DOI 10.2218/ijdc.v14i1.596
- RAEMY, Julien Antoine, SCHNEIDER, René. Les métiers des données : à l’intérieur, à l’extérieur et entre les mondes de la bibliothéconomie et de l‘archivistique. Hors-Texte. September 2019. Vol. 2019, no. 117, p. 46-52
- RAEMY, Julien Antoine, SCHNEIDER, René. Suggested measures for deploying IIIF in Swiss cultural heritage institutions. White Paper. Geneva, Haute école de gestion de Genève. 29 May 2019. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.2640416
- RAEMY, Julien Antoine. IIIF ou comment enfin valoriser ses images numériques de manière optimale et interopérable. Hors-Texte. 25 April 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 115, p. 22-32.
- RAEMY, Julien Antoine. Interopérabilité des images : de la nécessité des tests d’utilisabilité. Revue électronique suisse de science de l’information. 20 December 2017. Vol. 2017, no. 18.
- RAEMY, Julien Antoine. Retour sur la conférence IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework), 7-9 juin 2017 au Vatican. Revue électronique suisse de science de l’information. 20 December 2017. Vol. 2017, no. 18.
- RAEMY, Julien Antoine. The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF): raising awareness of the user benefits for scholarly editions. Bachelor’s thesis. Geneva, Switzerland : HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2020.
- RAEMY, Julien Antoine, FORNARO, Peter and ROSENTHALER, Lukas. Implementing a Video Framework based on IIIF: A Customized Approach from Long-Term Preservation Video Formats to Conversion on Demand. Archiving Conference. 15 May 2017. Vol. 2017, no. 1, p. 68–73. DOI 10.2352/issn.2168-3204.2017.1.0.68.
Presentations
- RAEMY, Julien Antoine, ALWASH, Amir, GAUDINAT, Arnaud and SCHNEIDER, René. INCIPIT: An Archival Resource Key (ARK) Allocation Service in Switzerland. Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Fall 2020 Virtual Membership Meeting. Virtual event. 1 December 2020 - Video recording:
- SCHNEIDER, René and RAEMY, Julien Antoine. Auspacken, Identifizieren, Anpacken: Überlegungen zur Konvergenz von Linked Data und persistenter Identifikation. Informationen - digital verpackt. Virtual event - Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Switzerland. 22 September 2020 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4043572 - Video recording:
- RAEMY, Julien Antoine. Enabling better aggregation and discovery of cultural heritage content for Europeana and its partner institutions. Master’s thesis oral defence. Haute école de gestion de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland. 28 August 2020. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3975522 - Video recording:
- RAEMY, Julien Antoine and FREIRE, Nuno. Overview of alternative technologies for (meta)data aggregation. Europeana Aggregators Forum Spring 2020. Virtual event. 6 May 2020. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4011512 - Video recording:
- CEVEY, Matthieu and RAEMY, Julien Antoine. Swiss PID Hub : création d’un Hub pour la gestion des identifiants pérennes en Suisse. Session des posters scientifiques. Scientific poster. Haute école de gestion de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland. 12 December 2019. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.3551008
- RAEMY, Julien Antoine. Das International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF): eine Reihe von Standards für eine bessere Veröffentlichung der Ressourcen im Web. Informationsanlass Alexandria. Bibliothek am Guisanplatz, Bern, Switzerland. 30 October 2019. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.3463088
- RAEMY, Julien Antoine, SCHNEIDER, René. Swiss institutions climbing up the IIIF ladder. 2019 IIIF Conference. Alte Mensa, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany. 26 June 2019. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.3238161 - Video recording:
- RAEMY, Julien Antoine, SCHNEIDER, René. Assigning persistent identifiers to art and design entities. Fourth Swiss Congress for Art History, Quid pro quo: linked data in art history research. VKKS 2019. Accademia di architettura, Mendrisio, Switzerland. 7 June 2019. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.3241453
- SCHNEIDER, René and RAEMY, Julien Antoine. Towards Trusted Identities for Swiss Researchers and their Data. 14th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC). Melbourne, Australia. 6 February 2019. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.2415996
- RAEMY, Julien Antoine. The uptake of IIIF in Switzerland and the current state of TICKS: building a IIIF-alignment outreach programme. 2018 IIIF Conference. Library of Congress, Washington D.C., USA, 24 May 2018. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1252084
- RAEMY, Julien Antoine. The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF): raising awareness of the user benefits for scholarly editions. Midi-AGBD - Prix romand en bibliothéconomie 2017. Université de Genève, Site Uni Mail, Genève, Switzerland. 27 March 2018.
- RAEMY, Julien Antoine. Présentation brève de IIIF et du travail de bachelor. Séminaire en bibliothéconomie. Haute école de gestion de Genève, Carouge, Switzerland. 9 November 2017.
- Raemy, Julien Antoine. Usability testing conducted on the UV and Mirador, 2017 IIIF Conference. Augustinianum, The Vatican City. 5 June 2017.
Posts
- CEVEY, Matthieu and RAEMY, Julien Antoine. Ce Hub a plus d’une corde à son arc !. Recherche d’IdéeS. 28 January 2020.
- CEVEY, Matthieu and RAEMY, Julien Antoine. Un PID pour (enfin?) les gouverner tous. Recherche d’IdéeS. 2 September 2019.
- RAEMY, Julien Antoine. De la nécessité de la visualisation face au déluge des données. Recherche d’IdéeS. 21 November 2018.
Awards
- November 2017: Prix romand en bibliothéconomie