Merge pull request #879 from IIIF/abstract

add Maia abstract

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@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ This presentation explores creative and technical strategies for diverse materia
     title: Watch me spin up a production ready, lightning fast, IIIF image service
       in less time than it takes to give this talk
     type: Lightning talk
-  - abstract: TBC
+  - abstract: "We will be presenting our internship project with the Digital Creativity and Cultures Hub at the University of Leeds which surrounds digitising collections from our university’s archives and Special Collections in order to make the materials more accessible. The premiss of our project is turning patterned fabrics from the archive’s collections into frequencies, inspired by the way in which certain frequencies can form cymatic patterns, to be played alongside the visual images of the patterns to create a means of experiencing the pattern in a different format, therefore making the collections more accessible to all but particularly people with visual impairments. It is important to us to maintain the original properties of the fabrics and translate them rather than produce something which is interpretive to ensure we create an accurate and exact representation of the fabric existing in a different medium. IIIF’s audio resources and deep zoom features supply our project with a digital clarity which is essential to the authenticity of the experience we aim to provide and the relationship between the two sensory portrayals of the fabrics."
     authors:
     - name: Maia Mackay
       org: University of Leeds, UK