1) IIIF provides standards for delivering images and presenting objects to allow for deep zooming, citing regions of interest, comparing images across sites, and reuniting related objects. 2) IIIF consists of an Image API for delivering image data and a Presentation API for describing image-based objects and their structure. Additional APIs provide for authentication, search within objects, and other functions. 3) IIIF helps aggregators by allowing rich embeddable content, describing complex digital objects, and enabling reuse of IIIF implementations.

1. IIIF for Aggregators
Glen Robson
IIIFTechnical Coordinator
twitter: @glenrobson
Special thanks to Tom Cramer, Michael Keller, Stu Snydman, Jack Reed,
Sheila Rabun, Mike Appleby, Tom Crane, Josh Hadro and many others for their
content in preparing this overview.

2. About
• IIIFTechnical 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
• Involved in the IIIF community since 2013

3. What does IIIF do?

4. Deep zoom with large images
Stanford University | https://purl.stanford.edu/hs631zg4177

5. Cite and share (including regions of interest)
University College Dublin | https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.ucdlib_53396

6. Compare images
Computed Tomography (CT) scans of the head of a seal from the Wellcome
Library
https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b20433141 | https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b2043313x

7. Across sites
Shakespeare-related resources from Oxford, Stanford & Yale https://
digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/32bb9aa4-43ce-4bf7-b0fb-c9452ca8e40c
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/zj784pt2430 | http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1667254

8. Reunify

9. Collect items that belong together
Le manuscrit 5 de la
Bibliothèque municipale de
Châteauroux, c. 1460
Folio in BVMM
Miniature in the BNF

10. Collect items that belong together

11. Reunify
http://demos.biblissima-condorcet.fr/chateauroux/demo/

12. Analyze
Klokan Technology’s Georeferencer

13. Annotate
https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:HarvardX+MCB64.1x+2T2016/d16e07a5cec442eeb7cd9dfcb695dce0/

14. Mirador instances on display at McMullen Museum, Boston College.
Enrich

15. All with the application of your choice
Mirador Universal Viewer IA Book Reader
Qatar Digital Library
Archival papers shown in 4
different viewers.
http://labs.cogapp.com/iiif

16. Video

17. How does IIIF work?

18. “get pixels” via a
simple, RESTful,
web service
Just enough metadata to
drive a remote viewing
experience
Image API Presentation API
IIIF: Two Core APIs

19. Image Delivery API
http://iiif.io/api/image/2.1/

21. Presentation API
http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2.1/
• Structure
– Collection, Item, Sequence,
Parts
• Properties
– Labels, description, license,
attribution, links

22. Image + Presentation = Object

23. Presentation
API
• Title Label
• Structure
(TOC)
• Sequence
Image
API
• Image
Data
Image + Presentation = Object

24. Manifest
http://dams.llgc.org.uk/iiif/2.0/4642022/manifest.json

25. To support login, and
differential access to
resources.
Search within an
object, such as the
full text of a book or
newspaper
Authentication APISearch Within API
IIIF: Two More APIs

26. How does IIIF help
aggregators?

27. Rich Embeddable Content

28. Complex Objects

29. FullText

30. Video

31. Allow reuse

32. Allow reuse

33. Allow reuse

34. Allow reuse

35. BuildingTools

36. What IIIF doesn’t do

37. How to get started?

38. Image API
• 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/
• Aggregators
• Europeana
• Install a IIIF Image server
https://github.com/IIIF/awesome-iiif#image-servers
• Open Source:
• IIP Image - written in C
• Loris - python
• Cantaloupe - Java

39. Presentation API
• Vendor / DAMS
• Examples include OCLC ContentDM, GallerySystems,
Veridian and others.
• Consultancy services
• Digirati, Brumfield Labs and others
• Small scale
• Bodleian Manifest Editor: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
• Home grown development

40. Getting help
•Ask the community!
•Email: iiif-discuss@google.com
•Slack: http://bit.ly/iiif-slack
•Beginners channel
•Fortnightly telephone calls
• Join a IIIF interest group
• Attend a IIIF event - https://iiif.io/event/
• Ask IIIF Staff

41. How you can help us

42. “How can I find IIIF images?”

43. IIIF Discovery
https://iiif.io/community/groups/discovery/

44. Join us!
•Email: iiif-discuss@google.com
•Slack: http://bit.ly/iiif-slack
• Beginners channel
•Fortnightly telephone calls
• Join a IIIF interest group
• Attend a IIIF event - https://iiif.io/event/