Presentation given by Glen Robson, IIIF Technical Coordinator, introducing the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and showing highlights from recent community initiatives, at the IIIF Showcase and Workshop, 12 March 2018 in the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin

1. How to get involved and Community
Highlights
Glen Robson - IIIF Technical Coordinator
twitter:@glenrobson
http://bit.ly/iiif-ireland

2. Showcase
http://bit.ly/iiif-ireland

3. Interoperable - Viewers

4. Interoperable - Images

5. Interoperable - Collections
http://stanford.io/1PW789d

6. www.georeferencer.co
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7. HarvardX

8. Comparing Collections

9. Compariscope by the V&A

10. IIIF for Storytelling - Coggapp

11. Crowdsourcing at NLW

12. Crowdsourcing at NLW

13. The Indigenous Digital
Archive

14. Community
http://bit.ly/iiif-ireland

15. Communication Channels
IIIF Website: http://iiif.io/
IIIF Slack Channel: http://bit.ly/iiif-slack
IIIF Community Groups: http://iiif.io/community/groups/
IIIF Consortium: http://iiif.io/community/consortium/
IIIF Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/iiif-
discuss

17. IIIF Community
• Fortnightly calls
• 17:00 Wednesdays
• Community Calls
• Demos
• Community discussion
• Next call 28th March on Annotations
• Technical Calls
• Discussing changes to specifications
• Anyone can bring use cases
• Next call tomorrow - change to sequences and rights & attribution
discussion

18. Community Groups
http://bit.ly/iiif-ireland

19. IIIF Community Groups
• Community Groups
• Manuscripts Community Group
• Museums Community Group
• Newspapers Community Group
• Software Developers Community Group
• New groups:
• Outreach
• 3d - first meeting on Friday!
• Technical Groups:
• A/V Technical Specification Group
• Discovery Technical Specification Group
• Text Granularity Technical Group
Open to suggestions for others e.g. 3D and STEM
http://iiif.io/community/groups/

20. IIIF Museum Community Group
• Letter to DAMS vendors
• Regular Demos
• Organise meetups
http://iiif.io/community/groups/museums/

21. IIIF Manuscript Community Group
• Assisting each other
• Discussing annotations
• Demos
http://iiif.io/community/groups/manuscripts/

22. IIIF Newspapers Community Group
• Hearing from two Newspaper projects
• Europeana Newspapers
• Samvera Newspapers (Boston Public Library and University of Utah)
• Starting a OCR correction project
• Institutions give IIIF Newspaper images
• Researchers from University of Rouen working with the data
http://iiif.io/community/groups/newspapers/

23. IIIF Software Developer Group
• Sharing development between Mirador and UV (shared libraries)
• General software assistance
• Demos
http://iiif.io/community/groups/software/

24. IIIF A/V Working Group
• Sharing development between Mirador and UV (shared libraries)
• General software assistance
• Demos
http://iiif.io/community/groups/av/

25. IIIF Discovery Working Group
• Investigating Drag and Drop
• Looking at harvesting options for aggregators
http://iiif.io/community/groups/discovery/

26. www.europeana.eu

28. IIIF Discovery Working Group
• Investigating Drag and Drop
• Looking at harvesting options for aggregators
• Later:
• Search Engine Optimisation
• Notifications
http://iiif.io/community/groups/discovery/

29. IIIF Groups
● Are based on mutual respect
● Commitment to share expertise, effort and
engagement
● Engage with wider IIIF Community and be inclusive
● Regular online meetings and face-2-face meetings at
events
● Open notes on IIIF Google Drive and Slack channels
● Share work and Demos

30. Community Events
http://bit.ly/iiif-ireland

31. IIIF Events
• Working group meeting
• Conference
• Regional events (World #iiif Week)
• Dublin
• Boston - Wednesday + Thursday
• Paris - Thursday
http://iiif.io/event/

32. Events & Outreach

33. 2018 IIIF Conference
Washington, DC - May 21-25, 2018
Co-hosted by the Library of Congress, the
Smithsonian Institution, and the Folger
Shakespeare Library

34. IIIF Consortium (IIIF-C)
http://bit.ly/iiif-ireland

35. IIIF Consortium (IIIF-C)
● IIIF is an open, community-powered framework
● IIIF-C’s mission is to provide sustainability and steering
for IIIF
- Gather funding, grant partner
- Organise Conference and working meeting
- Hire staff, sign agreements
- Hold IP, etc.
http://iiif.io/community/consortium

36. IIIF Consortium
● 50 institutional members
● New Members Since December:
- National Library of Wales
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Kansai University in Japan
● Opening up new tiers of membership in
2018

37. Learning Resources
Introduction to IIIF:
http://resources.digirati.com/iiif/an-introduction-
to-iiif/
IIIF basics (15 mins): https://www.learniiif.org
IIIF tutorial: https://iiif.github.io/training/intro-to-iiif/
IIIF workshop: http://ronallo.com/iiif-workshop/

38. Thanks
http://bit.ly/iiif-ireland