Europeana IIIF Task Force.
This presentation will provide an overview of the different community and technical groups in the IIIF community, with interest-based activities related to manuscripts, m
useums and art, newspapers and text, and software development. As needs arise from within the community, new technical specification groups have formed to address improved discovery of IIIF resources and extending the IIIF specifications to cover A/V materials.Members of the IIIF community with red "Ask Me" badges will be available for discussion and Q&A to further explore the various aspects of IIIF. Classrooms on the 4th floor of the venue will be available for more in-depth demos.
IIIF APIs: Learn more about the technical details of the IIIF APIs (Image, Presentation, Content Search, and Authentication).
Leaders: Simeon Warner (Cornell), Jon Stroop (Princeton), and Tom Crane (Digirati)
IIIF and Content Types: Are you working with specific types of content at your institution? Find out how IIIF works with various content types, and learn how to get involved with content-based IIIF community groups.
Leaders:
Manuscripts: Benjamin Albritton (Stanford), Rachel Di Cresce (University of Toronto), and Laura Mitchell (University of Toronto)
Newspapers and Text: Karen Estlund (Pennsylvania State University) and Glen Robson (National Library of Wales)
Archival content: Mark Matienzo (Stanford)
Getting Started with IIIF: Learn the basics of how to get started with IIIF at your institution.
Leaders: Stuart Snydman (Stanford) and Jeffrey Witt (Loyola University Maryland)
Museums and Art: How does IIIF pertain to museum use cases and art studies? Learn about current IIIF implementations in the museums community, and get involved with the IIIF Museums Community Group.
Leaders: Michael Appleby (Yale Center for British Art), Cathryn Goodwin (Princeton University Art Museum), Jeff Steward (Harvard Art Museums)
Clients, Servers, and Software: As a software developer and/or technical implementer, find out the important details you will need to know about IIIF-compatible clients and servers, and get involved with the IIIF Software Developers Community Group.
Leaders: Rashmi Singhal (Harvard), Jack Reed (Stanford), Drew Winget (Stanford)
IIIF Consortium (IIIF-C) Membership and Community Engagement: Find out how to get involved with the IIIF community at large and/or join the IIIF Consortium.
CONTENTdm is a leading digital repository system used by more than two thousand libraries. CONTENTdm added support for the Image API last year and is looking now at adding support for the Presentation API. This is an overview of the considerations that went into adding Image API support and the challenges involved in adding support for the Presentation API.
Museum use cases for IIIF are increasingly relevant as more museums are making digital images available online. This lightning talk will give an overview of use cases from the Art Institute of Chicago, including image integration with scholarly publications and conservation research using the Mirador Viewer, internal management systems requiring the IIIF Authentication API, and representing image sequences in non-paginated arrangements, such as 360° rotation viewers.
DSpace is the world-leading open-source repository platform with more than 2200 installations. DSpace allows easy management of digital assets, with web UIs to upload, describe and access content. 4Science added IIIF capabilities to DSpace, through a dedicated add-on, so that images and image collections can be accessed and shared with a IIIF viewer. Out-of-box, an enhanced version of the Universal Viewer client is integrated, providing smooth access to the images archived in DSpace. The add-on can embed any IIIF Image API servers such as Digilib, IIPImage, etc. and implements the IIIF Image API, IIIF Presentation API, IIIF Search API. The DSpace DRM policies defined for the single image or collection (open access, embargo, reserved access) are enforced in the IIIF player. DSpace has also be enriched with other relevant modules such as a PDF viewer, OCR, audio/video streaming.
For a couple years now, two research projects at Yale University in digital humanities have adopted IIIF in their efforts to manage their workflows, showcase the work, and enable collaboration among researchers. Ten Thousand Rooms is a community-oriented project for studying pre-modern Chinese literary texts, and Life of the Buddha is about presentation of annotated mural paintings from a monastry in Tibet.
Our software development is driven mainly by use cases of annotations which were rather unique in the early stages of the projects but now it seems more widely shared in the research community. While the system has many components in the background, the core user experience (UX) is built around Mirador.
We have met and solved quite a few interesting challenges in extending and embedding Mirador in our application, which we will showcase in the lightning talk and the demo session.
CONTENTdm supports a wide variety of data types and has an extensible "compound object" data structure. It is not simple to adapt this data structure to the Presentation API in a generic way. This session will be to demonstrate our successes in creating Presentation manifests and examine cases that do not have obvious solutions.
Mark and Elizabeth will present a recently completed collaboration between UCLA Library and the Early Manuscripts Electronic Library (a non-profit organization) to publish 74 palimpsest manuscripts online. This online publication aims to facilitate the study of these materials, which would otherwise be hindered by geography and the physical properties of the materials. These manuscripts are often fragile and are all palimpsested—original text was removed from the parchment through washing or scraping and then new text was written on the same material. The first text (the “undertext”) can be made more legible through spectral imaging techniques, and that has been the purpose of this project. As a result of making these undertexts legible again, this project has significantly increased the extant corpus of several dead languages. To present these materials to a scholarly audience and make them useful online, the UCLA Library selected IIIF and the Mirador IIIF-compatible image viewer.
The primary deliverable of the project is a web application that enables scholars to study spectral images of these manuscripts using a variety of possible workflows. The primary user interface component is a heavily customized instance of Mirador, which provides a rich set of tools to support these workflows. We’ve developed a Java-based IIIF image server in-house, which also helps support our internal workflows for ingesting and managing content. Both of these components were developed with an eye toward use in future projects. We plan to demonstrate examples of our users’ workflows and talk about some of our internal workflows for supporting the project. In particular, we will discuss our implementation of the “choice” aspect of the IIIF Presentation API and the user interface we adopted in Mirador to support that. In addition, we will present findings from user studies with medievalists and imaging scientists about the functionalities of the current website. Finally, we also will share our plan for further development—including incorporating richer metadata and supporting annotations—and discuss some lessons we learned as new adopters of IIIF. For more information see http://www.sinaipalimpsests.org/.
For a couple years now, two research projects at Yale University in digital humanities have adopted IIIF in their efforts to manage their workflows, showcase the work, and enable collaboration among researchers. Ten Thousand Rooms is a community-oriented project for studying pre-modern Chinese literary texts, and Life of the Buddha is about presentation of annotated mural paintings from a monastry in Tibet.
Our software development is driven mainly by use cases of annotations which were rather unique in the early stages of the projects but now it seems more widely shared in the research community. While the system has many components in the background, the core user experience (UX) is built around Mirador.
We have met and solved quite a few interesting challenges in extending and embedding Mirador in our application, which we will showcase in the lightning talk and the demo session.