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.
IIIF allows the interoperable display and sharing of annotations and scholarly collections of image materials. Drew Winget (Stanford) and Ed Silverton (Digirati) will demonstrate how the representation of collections and annotations as IIIF linked data enables live, interoperable updating and persistence of these resources between the Mirador and Universal Viewer client software. The demonstration simulates the workflow of a small research group, who uses their client software of choice, along with the IPFS Peer-to-Peer persistence layer, to collaborate to build up collections of interesting material from different repositories and annotate them, saving their shared data for future sessions.