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.
Many institutions which intend to use IIIF to disseminate content are also interested in using Fedora to manage that content. Because Fedora and IIIF are built on the principles of linked data, IIIF data models and services can be connected to content stored in Fedora. The API Extension Architecture (API-X), https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Design+-+API+Extension+Architecture, is a framework for extending the native functionality of Fedora which could be used to integrate Fedora and IIIF. Since API-X is HTTP middleware, API-X is decoupled from the implementation details of Fedora. API-X can be used to add behaviors to Fedora objects as well as modify how Fedora objects are expressed. This talk will describe the basic concepts of API-X, how to leverage API-X to bind services to linked data repository objects, and integration patterns that allow one to expose and discover IIIF services on repository objects.
