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Advances in the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Community

Home / Project Briefing Pages / CNI Fall 2017 Project Briefings / Advances in the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Community

December 10, 2017

Karen Estlund
Associate Dean for Technology and Digital Strategies
Pennsylvania State University

The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) community is comprised of a growing number of the world’s leading university, state, and national libraries, museums, galleries, archives, software firms, research institutions, and cultural heritage organizations working with digital images on the web. Now at version 2.1.1, the IIIF specifications have become the shared standard for digital image repositories. In the past year, the IIIF community has embarked on multiple projects and collaborations to advance the usefulness and adoption of IIIF across the GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) landscape and beyond. With two dedicated staff (a community manager and a technical coordinator) now working on behalf of the IIIF Consortium, and a growing community of active contributors, the initiative is poised to move forward through the following projects:

  • Expanding the IIIF Presentation API to include time-based audio/visual materials (draft specifications are currently being tested by the Avalon Media System team and the British Library)
  • Consulting partnership with the American Art Collaborative, and future consulting engagements
  • Multi-institutional collaboration to improve OpenJPEG, an open-source JPEG2000 codec
  • Partnership with DHSI (Digital Humanities Summer Institute)
  • Increased collaboration with Japanese cultural heritage institutions, recent IIIF events in Japan
  • Increased locally-organized events (Harvard meet-up in September, London event at the V&A in November)
  • Exploration of STEM use cases, and potential for 3D and IIIF

In addition, in the past year, the IIIF specifications have been adopted by a number of institutions (the Smithsonian Institution, Folger Shakespeare Library, and National Gallery of Art are the latest institutions to join the IIIF Consortium) and software packages such as CONTENTdm, and ExLibris’ Rosetta and Alma. This project briefing will cover the latest experiments, applications, and highlights of adoption over the past year, updates on the specific projects listed above, and an overview of how interested parties can get involved with the growing IIIF community. This session will be of interest to parties from all institutions responsible for digital image repositories.

http://iiif.io/
http://iiif.io/community/consortium/
http://iiif.io/news/2017/08/30/newsletter/

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Filed Under: CNI Fall 2017 Project Briefings, Digital Curation, Information Access & Retrieval, Project Briefing Pages, Repositories, Standards
Tagged With: cni2017fall, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions

Last updated:  Friday, December 22nd, 2017

 

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