Given as part of the University of KwaZulu-Natal Special Collections: Preservation Conservation Conference 2019: http://campbell.ukzn.ac.za/?q=node/48122
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
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
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
15. BNF: Reconstructed manifest (partial):
Grandes Chroniques de France
(Châteauroux, BM, ms 5)
http://demos.biblissima-condorcet.fr/chateauroux/osd-demo/
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
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