IIIF & Beyond

Peter Clarke

UCD Digital Library

International Image Interoperability Framework

(pronounced “Triple-Eye-Eff”)

A Community

that develops Shared APIs,

implements them in Software,

and exposes interoperable Content

What libraries

want

● Zoom and alter image attributes

● Copy, Download, Save, Share

● Compare images (near and far)

● Annotate, transcribe, translate, and share

information

● Search within an image or set or images

for associated text (OCR, annotations)

● Fast and (almost?) free

● Preservation standards

● Retain control of images

IIIF at UCD

IIIF at UCD Digital Library

First institution in Ireland to adopt IIIF

● Deploy an image server (i.e. Loris image server).

● Publish IIIF-compliant metadata.

● Deploy and integrate software (i.e. Mirador and Universal Viewer).

IIIF @ UCD

Save & Share Images (demonstration)

Save & Share Images (demonstration)

Maps (demonstration)

Full-text Search (demonstration)

Transcribe/Translate (demonstration)

Why use IIIF?

● IIIF shifts the focus from library standards to web standards.

● IIIF provides a framework for interoperability with other frameworks that encourage sharing and

linking, e.g. ResourceSync.

● IIIF helps libraries, museums, etc. shift attention from administrative uses of interoperability (OAI-

PMH, OAI-CORE etc.) to end-user empowerment in working with digital cultural heritage on the web.

Places to start:

iiif.io

iiif-discuss@googlegroups.com

Further Development at UCD

● Crowdsourced transcriptions and translations

● Audio-visual collections (IIIF-AV)

● Annotations

● Search API

● Authentication API

Long-term Projects

Dúchas

Irish Poetry Reading Archive

Clifden Arts Festival

Europeana

Questions?

digital.ucd.ie / @UCDdigital

p.clarke@ucd.ie / @brndgtl