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# Milli IAW 2021 invite for FOSS community

The Milli Consortium is a not-for-profit network of individuals and communities interested in the nurturing of archives. Milli helps individuals and institutions to build and sustain archives. It facilitates discussions among the community around issues of diversity, archival standards, conservation, physical and digital access, pedagogy, privacy and the development of inclusive description standards. More here: https://www.milli.link/about/. Ours is a small team of archivists, designers, developers, and semantic web researchers.

We are currently working on rolling out a prototype of our archival discovery-interpretation-narration platform. 

* niosX is an adaptable backend (GNU GPL License), capable of serving any application that manages highly connected data, modelled using W3C Annotation Data Model. We overlay a semantic layer of NiosxConcepts over the annotation data model to capture the structure of an application in any given context. Checkout wiki for more on architecture, design and specification https://notabug.org/prasoon/niosx/wiki

We are looking for FOSS volunteers to help us with our code, documentation, testing and community engagement.

Come and know more about our community, by attending the International Archives Week 2021 organized by Milli Consortium starting 7th June till 13th June, 2021. Archivists, Designers, Lawyers, Activists, Developers, Curators, Academics, Community Organisers, Artists, Writers, Students…. coming together for a set of informal online events. All sessions are free and open to the public. Checkout the schedule and details on sessions at https://www.milli.link/iaw2021/

We are discussng the Tech on the 10th of june, here is the schedule.

Details of the session https://www.milli.link/iaw2021/#ways-of-seeing--an-archive-annotation-workshop
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