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.
This session will cover how decentralized technologies like IPFS (Interplanetary File System) apply to IIIF collections. We will explore how institutions can use the decentralized web to open up new avenues for patron engagement while, at the same time, reducing IT operational overhead. Matt Zumwalt, from the team creating the IPFS protocol, will give an overview of the growing trend towards "serverless", decentralized, content-addressed approaches to storage, dissemination and processing of digital information. He'll show how these approaches create new ways for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums to provide discovery, preservation and access services directly on top of the content that patrons create and use, without requiring patrons to submit their data into yet another silo.
