Presentation at DAMLA, November 15 2017, on the adoption of the IIIF image interoperability APIs across the Cultural Heritage sector for access to digital assets. How Linked Open Data then provides interoperable discovery solutions for that content.

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A
Cultural
Heritage
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Rob
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Semantic
Architect
J.
Paul
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Trust
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@azaroth42
http://iiif.io/
http://linked.art/

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Images
are
Core
Information
Carriers

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Yet,
we
heard
…

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I
am
locked
into
my
image
delivery
software

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My
users
want
deep
zoom
(on
mobile)

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They
want
to
compare
objects…

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I
want
to
compare
objects
They
want
to
compare
objects
across
organizational
boundaries

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They
want
to
annotate
my
images…

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@azaroth42
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but
I
don’t
want
to
lose
control

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Oh,
and
…

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I
don’t
want
to
invent
any
of
it

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http://iiif.io/

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IIIF:
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A
Community
that
develops APIs,
implements
them
in
Software,
and
exposes
interoperable
Content

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Some
of
the
IIIF
Community
• Austria
• British
Library
• Cuba
• Denmark
• Egypt
• France
• Israel
• Japan
• Brown
• Cambridge
• Columbia
• Cornell
• Ghent
• Harvard
• Hong
Kong
• Johns
Hopkins
• Norway
• Poland
• Scotland
• Qatar
• Serbia
• Lib.
of
Congress
• Vatican
• Wales
• Kyoto
• Oxford
• MIT
• Princeton
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• Tokyo
• Toronto
• Yale
National
Libraries Universities

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More
of
the
IIIF
Community
• ArtStor
• Axiell
• CogApp
• Digirati
• Ex
Libris Group
• Gallery
Systems
• Internet
Archive
• Klokan Tech.
• Art
Gallery
of
Ontario
• Art
Institute
of
Chicago
• British
Museum
• Carnegie
Museum
of
Art
• Cooper-­‐Hewitt
• Europeana Foundation
• Frick
Collection
• Indianapolis
Art
Museum
• J.
Paul
Getty
Trust
• Metropolitan
Museum
of
Art
• National
Gallery
of
Art
(US)
• National
Museum
of
Sweden
• National
Gallery
of
Denmark
• San
Francisco
MOMA
• Walters
Art
Gallery
• Yale
Centre
for
British
Art
• Luna
Imaging
• NetX
• OCLC
• Sirma Group
• Synaptica
• Text
&
Bytes
• Wikimedia
• Zegami
Companies Museums
&
Galleries
Plus
many
more!

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APIs:
Agreement
Preceding
Interaction*
Presentation
Search
Image
Authentication
(*
API
is
really:
Application
Programming
Interface)

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APIs
help
DAM
Managers
• Affordable
• Faster,
easier
and
better
than
single
system
solution
• Costs
are
shared
by
community,
including
design/docs
• Flexible
• Always
have
best
of
class
product
• Ease
of
integration
with
existing
systems
• Same
content
can
enable
many
applications
Affordable
+
Flexible
=
Sustainable

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APIs
help
DAM
Developers
• Encourages
Innovation
• Start
from
existing
design
&
code,
focus
on
added
value
• Shared
innovations
added
to
new
API
versions
• Provides
a
Marketplace
• Hundreds
of
organizations
in
need
of
solutions
• Faster
development
=
cheaper
development
• Ease
of
integration
with
existing
products
Innovation
+
Marketplace
=
Profit

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Successful
APIs
…
• Solve
actual
challenges,
documented
as
use
cases
• Using
data
that
is
captured
and
available
• Allow
consistent
implementation
of
shared
use
cases
• Allow
for
addition
of
further
functionality
• Can
be
productively
used
• Via
easy-­‐to-­‐implement
services
• With
easy-­‐to-­‐implement
applications
• Provide
interoperability with
other
data
and
systems
• Are
clearly
documented
with
relevant
examples

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Successful
APIs
…
Are
developed
…
• Iteratively
• We
build
upon
success
and
learn
from
failure
• Responsively
• We
adapt
in
response
to
feedback
• Responsibly
• We
consider
changes/features
carefully
• Collaboratively
• We
engage
with
the
community
and
stakeholders

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IIIF
Image
API
http://iiif.io/api/image/
URL
pattern
to
access
pixels
and
technical
information

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IIIF
Presentation
API
Just
enough
structure
&
description
data
to
drive
a
viewer

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AoE with
highlights
http://iiif.io/api/presentation/

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IIIF:
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Developer-­‐Friendly
Format
{
"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json",
"id": "http://example.org/iiif/manifest/1",
"type": "Manifest",
"label": {"en": "The Abduction of Europa (1632)"},
"metadata": [{
"label": {"en": "Artist / Maker"},
"value": {"en": "Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn"}}],
"items": [ … ]
}
Easy
to
produce
and
consume
JSON
format
for
all
APIs

25. @azaroth42
rsanderson
@getty.edu
IIIF:
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IIIF
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DAM
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@azaroth42
rsanderson
@getty.edu
We
Heard
Feedback
…
• Heh,
I
don’t
want
to
lose
control,
remember!
• IIIF
Authentication
API guides
user
to
login
• I
don’t
want
to
read
all
those
words!
• IIIF
Search
API
enables
text
search
within
an
object
• What
about
our
video
and
audio
content?
• Next
Presentation
API
will
enable
time-­‐based
media
• How
do
I
find
IIIF
resources
I’m
interested
in?
• Working
on
object
discovery…
• …
but
needs
semantic
metadata

26. @azaroth42
rsanderson
@getty.edu
IIIF:
Interoperabilituy
IIIF
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DAM
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@azaroth42
rsanderson
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Linked
Art
https://linked.art/
(Still
early
beta!)

27. @azaroth42
rsanderson
@getty.edu
IIIF:
Interoperabilituy
IIIF
and
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Data:
A
DAM
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@azaroth42
rsanderson
@getty.edu
Linked.Art:
A
Cultural
Heritage
API
Linked.Art provides
APIs
that
enable
cultural
heritage
institutions
to
easily
publish
their
data
for
use
by
digital
research
projects
and
by
non-­‐specialist
developers.
90%
of
the
use
cases
of
90%
of
the
organizations,
with
10%
of
the
complexity

28. @azaroth42
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@getty.edu
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IIIF
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DAM
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@azaroth42
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Successful
APIs…
Focus on
the
primary
resources
of
concern
for
the
domain
Core
Classes:
• Object
• Activity
• Person
• Place
• Time

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Usable vs
Complete

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Target
Zone
for
Scope

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Incremental
Complexity

32. @azaroth42
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Same
Developer-­‐Friendly
Format
{
"@context": "https://lod.museum/ns/context/1/full.jsonld",
"id": "https://lod.museum/example/object/1",
"type": "ManMadeObject",
"classified_as": "aat:300033618",
"label": "Example Painting",
"made_of": {
"id": "aat:300015045",
"type": "Material",
"label": "watercolor"
}
}

33. @azaroth42
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@azaroth42
rsanderson
@getty.edu
I
Thought
You
Said
Linked
Data?!
IIIF
&
Linked.Art APIs
use
Linked
Data
throughout!
• Emphasis
is
on
Linked
Open
Usable Data:
LOUD
• JSON-­‐LD
format
looks
just
like
JSON
• No
need
for
complex
Semantic
Web
technologies!
• Target
audience
is
every
developer
100%
Buzzword
Compliant;
Only
10%
of
the
Effort!

34. @azaroth42
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IIIF
and
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DAM
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@azaroth42
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IIIF
&
Linked.Art:
A
DAM
Ecosystem
• LOUD:
Linked
Open
Usable Data
• IIIF gives
easy
access
to
content
• Linked.Art gives
easy
access
to
metadata
• Easy
to
implement
;
easy
to
build
on
top
of
• In
production
at
many
organizations
• Massive
international
community,
many
in
need
of
solutions

35. @azaroth42
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Thank
You!
Rob
Sanderson
rsanderson@getty.edu
@azaroth42

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Discuss!