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 Members Council of Europeana have requested to set up a Task Force which engages in the promotion and the further implementation of IIIF within Europeana. The purpose of the Task Force is to identify the current trends and tendencies towards the handling of the emerging IIIF technology on the part of the Europeana content providers. The Task Force will evaluate what are the necessary consequences for the Europeana Foundation of the results of this survey and give appropriate recommendations for future application of IIIF technologies within the Europeana ecosystem. To achieve this objective the Task Force members will a) survey the use of IIIF technologies on the part of the Europeana content providers, b) identify possible implementation problems and requirements on the part of Europeana stakeholders on the IIIF framework, c) make visible the first point of contact for partners who want to work with IIIF,d) identify who in the network is willing to be involved in future IIIF-related activities and e) discuss what role Europeana Foundation wants expert hubs and aggregators to play.
