Julien A. Raemy currently works as a data scientist and project manager at the Swiss Federal Archives. He is also an Associate Researcher at the University of Bern (Walter Benjamin Kolleg, Digital Humanities). He completed his PhD at the Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Basel, where he successfully defended his dissertation entitled Linked Open Usable Data for Cultural Heritage: Perspectives on Community Practices and Semantic Interoperability in November 2024. He also holds a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Information Science from the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO).

He has extensive experience in academia and the cultural heritage sector, including as a photo archivist for the Montreux Jazz Digital Project at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (2015-2017), as a research and teaching assistant at the Haute école de gestion de Genève (2017-2021) and as an Interoperability Specialist at DaSCH, Swiss National Data and Service Centre for the Humanities (2021-2024).

He is an active member of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and belongs to 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