The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) 2017 Conference in The Vatican is intended for a wide range of participants and interested parties, including digital image repository managers, content curators, software developers, scholars, and administrators at libraries, museums, cultural heritage institutions, software firms, and other organizations working with digital images and audio/visual materials. The conference will consist of two events with separate registration:
IIIF Conference, 7-9 June (3 days of plenary and parallel sessions). The pre-conference Mirador Viewer and Universal Viewer group meetings will take place on Monday, June 5, prior to the Showcase event and conference.
The Simple Image Presentation Interface (SIPI) is a versatile, high-performance open source (*) server written in C++ that is fully IIIF compliant. It adds interesting features that are important for the practical deployment of an IIIF server: incorporates the conversion of major image formats into each other (TIFF, J2K, PNG, JPEG), which can be used to convert files into (lossless) J2K images; preserves most metadata (IPTC, EXIF, XMP, ICC profiles) through all conversions; able to deal with and process ICC color profiles (it may on-the-fly convert a J2K-image with an AdobeRGB profile into a JPEG with standard sRGB profile); integrates the Lua scripting language for pre-flight and after-flight processing; implements JSON web tokens (JWT) for authentication. Together with Lua it allows for IIIF conforming authentication; includes a small-footprint web server; supports both http and hits using OpenSSL; and implements caching scheme relying on canonical IIIF-URL's. These and more features make SIPI a very attractive IIIF conforming media server for institutions dealing with large amounts of images. The sources and manual are available on GitHub (https://github.com/dhlab-basel/Sipi). (*) In order to compile the SIPI source with J2K support a valid Kakadu license is required since unfortunately Kakadu is not open source. However binary packages will be provided for most linux variants and OS X as well as docker images.