The Agroforestry Gallery is a key feature of DigitAF's Agroforestry Virtual Space, providing a dynamic platform for sharing and exploring agroforestry-related images.
Through the gallery, users can upload their own photos directly to the EURAF Agroforestry Media Zenodo community. Each uploaded image receives a DOI, is stored under an open license (default: CC BY 4.0), and is automatically integrated into the gallery via the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and the Zenodo API.
Because it is served directly from the EURAF GitHub repository, the gallery can easily be embedded or adapted by other projects, making it a ready-to-use solution for anyone who wants to showcase agroforestry imagery on their own website.
Its decentralized workflow is simple yet sustainable: contributors submit photos to Zenodo, EURAF curators review them for quality, and approved images appear in the public gallery. This approach ensures long-term scalability, even after the DigitAF project concludes, and may inspire other initiatives to reuse both the concept and the code. It offers an elegant and FAIR-compliant solution to image storing and sharing, avoiding "Can I use this picture?", "Where is the full resolution to use in printing material", "Who is the author of this picture?" or "How do I cite this picture". The gallery features permanent, curated photo collections from EURAF and its partners. All images are freely available for learning and exploration, with geo-tagged photos marked by a globe icon, when the coordinate is supplied by the author in the Zenodo record.
By participating, you not only share your own perspective on agroforestry but also support an open, collaborative approach to knowledge sharing that reflects EURAF's values.
Detailed step-by-step instructions for uploading photos to the gallery are available in the zenodo-upload-instructions.md file. These instructions are also dynamically loaded and displayed in the gallery's "Add Photo" interface.
The upload process involves:
- Creating a Zenodo account if you don't have one
- Uploading your photo to the EURAF agroforestry-media community
- Adding proper metadata including EURAF typology keywords
- Optionally adding coordinates for geo-tagged photos
The Agroforestry Gallery can be easily embedded into other websites and projects using an iframe. The gallery is hosted at https://euraf.github.io/agroforestry-gallery/ and provides a complete, self-updating photo gallery that requires no maintenance from the host website. For detailed embedding instructions, code examples, and integration options, see the embedding-instructions.md file.
The gallery employs a dynamic content loading system where all documentation and instructions are stored in Markdown files and automatically incorporated into the website interface using JavaScript. This approach provides a clean separation between content and code, allowing for:
- Easy content updates without modifying HTML or code
- Version control of all documentation and instructions
- Improved maintainability and collaborative editing
- Consistent formatting and presentation across all content areas
To learn more, contribute, or explore how this gallery can enrich your own platform, visit DigitAF and read the README file in the github repository.