Greetings all,
The second issue of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Community Newsletter is now available below, as well as online at http://iiif.io/news/2017/02/28/newsletter/.
Find out, at a glance, what the IIIF community has been up to! This issue has many exciting updates, highlights of work from across the community, and upcoming events, including the 2017 IIIF Conference. Feel free to share with others who may be interested.
IIIF Community Newsletter, Volume 1 Issue 2
Date: 28 Feb 2017
Author: Sheila Rabun
Community Snapshot
IIIF Adopters Survey
Community Events
IIIF Events in Edinburgh, Scotland
The National Library of Scotland and the University of Edinburgh Library and University Collections, are co-hosting two IIIF events in Edinburgh on
the 16th and 17th of March, 2017:
March 16, 2017: IIIF Technical Workshop
March 17, 2017: IIIF Showcase: Improving Access to Image Collections
2017 IIIF Conference
The 2017 International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Conference in The Vatican is intended for a wide range of participants and interested
parties across the IIIF community. A Call for Sponsors is now open, with an initial deadline of March 15. The conference will consist of pre-conference meetings for Mirador and Universal
Viewer, followed by two events with separate capacity and registration:
June 6, 2017: IIIF Showcase: Unlocking the World’s Digital Images
June 7-9, 2017: IIIF Conference
June 5, 2017: Pre-Conference Meetings
IIIF and IPTC
A recent call with representatives from both IIIF and the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC), the global standards body for news media, has
resulted in plans for exploration of the alignment of IPTC metadata and IIIF models, with a goal of identifying IPTC attributes relevant to IIIF and how IIIF APIs relate to IPTC standards. This work is expected to help all stakeholders (IIIF community, IPTC
members, DAMS providers, imaging community) get a sense of how the two frameworks relate to each other. If you would like to help with this effort, please contact Sheila Rabun (IIIF Community and Communications Officer) at [log in to unmask].
IIIF Presence at Conferences and Meetings
Active community participants are encouraged to represent IIIF at conferences, workshops and events around the world. Those planning to present on IIIF at a conference or meeting, please fill out the IIIF
Representation at Conferences and Meetings Survey. Recent and upcoming IIIF appearances include:
Europeana IIIF Task Force
Europeana has launched a IIIF Task Force led by the Austrian National Library, to encourage understanding and adoption of IIIF among Europeana
content providers and bring awareness to IIIF and the Europeana Data Model. Read more about various Europeana partners’ experiences with IIIF.
Technical Work
IIIF Design Principles
The IIIF Editors have published a list of IIIF design principles that serve to guide the development of IIIF technical specifications.
IIIF Authentication API 1.0
Published: Version 1.0 of the IIIF Authentication API
A/V Technical Specification Work
The IIIF A/V Technical Specification Group has identified a technical approach for moving forward with an extension of the IIIF Presentation
API to include a time dimension, allowing for interoperability for A/V materials. A synopsis of the group’s work and approach to
date is recommended reading for anyone interested in IIIF for A/V. A subset of the A/V group met in London recently for focused work on the British Library’s Mellon grant for IIIF A/V, resulting in an initial
set of fixtures. The group is currently seeking A/V material to test, unencumbered by rights issues that would prevent reuse, and suitable for all audiences, such as:
See the A/V group page for details on how to join in the discussion and learn more.
Discovery of IIIF Resources
The work of the IIIF Discovery Technical Specification Group is now underway, with bi-weekly calls planned for the foreseeable future. See the IIIF
Discovery group page for more details and information on how to join the group activities.
Community Groups:
Please see the IIIF Community Groups page for a calendar of group and community calls, as well as links to more information about each group.
All of the community groups will be meeting in person at the 2017 IIIF Conference in June.
Manuscripts Community Group
The IIIF Manuscripts group monthly calls are an excellent venue for sharing practices and experimentation for IIIF and manuscripts. On the most recent call, colleagues at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio,
Texas, gave a demo of The Jubilees Palimpsest Project, using the IIIF Navigator for interoperable image delivery. Join
the group to see more demos and share your work!
Museums Community Group
The IIIF Museums group is compiling an FAQ for museums interested in adopting IIIF, as well as examples of existing IIIF implementations
and use cases in museums. The following museums are currently working with IIIF: Art Gallery of Ontario, Harvard Art Museums, Yale
Center for British Art, The Frick Collection, Carnegie Museum of Art, Paul Mellon Center, The Getty, National Gallery of Art, and The Art Institute of Chicago.
Newspapers Community Group
The IIIF Newspapers group has been discussing textual data and IIIF, with a focus on OCR data as IIIF annotations, and distinguishing
granularity between words, lines, and paragraphs. Pennsylvania State University is currently migrating their historic digital newspaper collection to the Open Online Newspaper Initiative (Open
ONI) software, which complies with the IIIF Image API.
Software Developers Community Group
The IIIF Software Developers group meets every other week to share their work and ideas for IIIF-compatible software and re-usable components.
Shaun Ellis of Princeton has documented the libraries and components built by members of the group at https://viewdir.github.io/. The group is currently also planning “getting started with IIIF” training
sessions, to be delivered at Code4Lib and the upcoming IIIF Conference.
Implementations and Adoption
New Releases
Innovations & Ongoing Work from Across the IIIF Community
Edited by:
Sheila Rabun, IIIF Community and Communications Officer
With contributions from:
Tom Cramer (Stanford University Libraries)
Tom Crane (Digirati Ltd)
Régis Robineau (Biblissima)
Rashmi Singhal (Harvard)
Sheila Rabun
IIIF Community and Communications Officer
International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Consortium
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