Given as part of the University of KwaZulu-Natal Special Collections: Preservation Conservation Conference 2019: http://campbell.ukzn.ac.za/?q=node/48122

1. Glen Robson
IIIF Technical Coordinator
twitter: @glenrobson

2. About
• IIIF Technical Coordinator
• Help with implementations
• Work with vendors
• A community resource
• Funded by the IIIF Consortium
• Previously at the National Library of Wales for 12
years
• Digitisation
• http://bit.ly/2zPFx8a
• Newspapers
• http://newspapers.library.wales
• Fedora Repository / Digital Preservation
• Crowdsourcing
• IIIF Implementation; Image, Presentation,
Search

3. What is IIIF?
International Image Interoperability
Framework
Pronounced: “triple-eye-eff”

4. International Leaders
Museums / Galleries
British Museum
National Gallery of Art
The J. Paul Getty Trust
The Walters Art Museum
Yale Center for British Art
Victoria and Albert Museum
Chicago Art Museum
Aggregators
ARTstor
CONTENTdm
DPLA
Europeana
Internet Archive
Wikimedia Foundation
State / National Libraries
Austria
Bavarian State
British Library
Denmark
Egypt
France
Israel
Japan
Moravian Library
New Zealand
Norway
Poland
Scotland
Serbia
Wales
Qatar
United States (LoC)
Vatican
Universities and
Research Institutions
Cambridge
Cornell
Ghent
Gottingen
Harvard
Oxford
Princeton
Stanford
Edinburgh
Toronto
Wellcome Trust
Yale
Commercial
OCLC
Digirati
Africa Media Online

5. International

6. Image
IIIF is about making high quality Digital
Images* available on the internet

8. Before IIIF
• Giving access to images was hard!
• Started with low quality Web
images
• Moved to Flash based zoomable
viewers
• Each project needed a new
viewer
• All of our work was custom

9. With IIIF

10. Image
IIIF is about making high quality Digital
Images* available on the internet

11. IIIF and AV

12. Interoperable
“(of computer systems or software) able to
exchange and make use of information”

13. Interoperable - Viewers

14. Interoperable - Images

15. BNF: Reconstructed manifest (partial):
Grandes Chroniques de France
(Châteauroux, BM, ms 5)
http://demos.biblissima-condorcet.fr/chateauroux/osd-demo/

16. Interoperable - Collections
http://stanford.io/1PW789d

17. http://stanford.io/1PW789d
Interoperable - Collections

18. Interoperable - Collections
http://stanford.io/1PW789d

19. Interoperable
Example from Alexandra Bolintineau, University of Toronto Libraries

20. Framework
“get pixels” via a
simple, RESTful,
web service
Just enough metadata to
drive a remote viewing
experience
Image API Presentation API

21. IIIF Image Api
http://iiif.io/api/image/2.1/

22. info.jsonhttps://dlcs.io/iiif-img/3/2/04fbbb28-d5a7-4408-
b7da-800c4e65eda3/info.json
• width, height
• Tiles: width height
• Scalefactors 512x512,
1024x1024, 2048x2048
etc…
• Sizes: pre-generated full
images
• Profile: what the image
server supports

23. Zoom
https://tomcrane.github.io/the-long-iiif/dee-osd.html

24. Make images available
using the
Image APIOptions:
• Vendor / DAMS
• Where are your images stored?
• Examples include OCLC ContentDM, GallerySystems, Veridian and others.
• Hosting services
• Klokan: https://www.iiifhosting.com/
• Digirati: https://dlcs.info/
• Install a IIIF Image server
https://github.com/IIIF/awesome-iiif#image-servers
• Main ones:
• IIP Image - written in C
• Loris - python
• Cantaloupe - Java

25. Image API - Uses
https://jbhoward-dublin.github.io/IIIF-imageManipulation/index.html

26. Image API - Uses

27. Image API - Uses

28. www.georeferencer.com
Image API - Uses

29. Whats missing?
•Metadata
•Multiple images
•Structure (page order)
•Context / Metadata for
the User

30. Presentation API
http://iiif.io/api/presentation/
● Basic Descriptive Metadata
● Rights information
● Links
● Sequences - viewing order, etc.
● Ranges - Table of Contents etc.
● Based on Shared Canvas Model

31. Manifest

32. Manifest
http://dams.llgc.org.uk/iiif/2.0/4642022/manifest.json
• Metadata - descriptive
• Logo, license and attribution
• Sequences - images
• Structures - ranges

33. Metadata

34. Metadata - Multilingual

35. Benefits of IIIF

36. Benefits of IIIF

37. Explosion of Software
https://github.com/IIIF/awesome-iiif

38. Creating an exhibition - V&A

39. Aggregation

40. Crowdsourcing

41. Crowdsourcing

42. Crowdsourcing

45. Join the IIIF Community!
• IIIF Website: http://iiif.io
• iiif-discuss@googlegroups.com
• IIIF Slack Team – Join at http://bit.ly/iiif-slack
• Zoom teleconference calls
• Community calls - demos, latest news
• Last call yesterday at 6:00pm
• Community Groups - Manuscripts, Newspapers, Archives, Museums, 3D
• Technical Groups - AV, Discovery

46. IIIF Consortium (IIIF-C)• IIIF is an open, community-powered framework
• IIIF-C’s mission is to provide sustainability and steering for IIIF
- Gather funding, grant partner
- Organise Conference and working meeting
- Run training sessions and workshops
- Hire staff, sign agreements
- Hold IP, etc.
- 2 levels of membership
- $10,000 Full member
- $2,000 Associate member
- Benefits include access to TRC and discounted conference
tickets
http://iiif.io/community/consortium

48. Ask Questions
• Ask the community!
• Email: iiif-discuss@google.com
• Slack: http://bit.ly/iiif-slack
• Beginners channel
• Fortnightly telephone calls
• Join a IIIF interest group
• Ask fellow institutions
• Ask IIIF Staff