From our friends at the IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) Consortium:

 

The program is available for the 2018 IIIF Washington Conference and Showcase, May 21-25 in Washington, DC.  Please see the links below:

 

• Monday May 21st – Pre-Conference workshops hosted by the Smithsonian Institution
• Tuesday May 22nd – IIIF Showcase hosted by the Library of Congress and followed by a reception at the Folger Shakespeare Library - requires a separate, free registration (see below)
• Wednesday May 23rd – IIIF Conference plenary hosted by the Library of Congress and a conference reception at the Smithsonian Castle
• Thursday May 24th – IIIF Conference parallel sessions hosted by the Library of Congress
• Friday May 25th – IIIF Conference parallel sessions hosted by the Library of Congress

 

Registration for the main conference (pre-conference workshops on Monday and the main conference on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) is available at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2018-iiif-conference-in-washington-tickets-44377905510

 

Free registration for the showcase on Tuesday is available at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/iiif-washington-showcase-tickets-44860722629

 

Please don’t delay in registering as spaces are filling up particularly for the Monday workshops. Whether you are part of the IIIF Consortium are not, please join us. All are welcome!

 

About IIIF

Access to image-based resources is fundamental to research, scholarship and the transmission of cultural knowledge. Digital images are a container for much of the information content in the Web-based delivery of images, books, newspapers, manuscripts, maps, scrolls, single sheet collections, and archival materials. Yet much of the Internet’s image-based resources are locked up in silos, with access restricted to bespoke, locally built applications.

A growing community of the world’s leading research libraries and image repositories have embarked on an effort to collaboratively produce an interoperable technology and community framework for image delivery.

IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) has the following goals:

• To give scholars an unprecedented level of uniform and rich access to image-based resources hosted around the world.
• To define a set of common application programming interfaces that support interoperability between image repositories.
• To develop, cultivate and document shared technologies, such as image servers and web clients, that provide a world-class user experience in viewing, comparing, manipulating and annotating images.

 

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Louisa Kwasigroch

Director of Development & Outreach

CLIR

Digital Library Federation (DLF)

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