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Community Insight Series – October 26, 2017

Leveraging the Benefits of IIIF in CONTENTdm

Shane Huddleston Chad FennellCONTENTdm Product ManagerOCLC

Applications DeveloperUniversity of Minnesota Libraries

Community Insight Series – October 26, 2017

Shane Huddleston Chad FennellCONTENTdm Product ManagerOCLC

Applications DeveloperUniversity of Minnesota Libraries

What is IIIF?International Image Interoperability Framework

The IIIF is driven by a community of research, national and state libraries, museums, companies and image repositories committed to providing access to high quality image resources.

source: http://iiif.io

• API spec for access to images

• API spec for access to structure and metadata

• Best practices for data management– manuscripts– newspapers– much more

IIIF is shared standards

• Weekly, bi-weekly working group conference calls

• Conferences and meetups (May 2018, Wash. DC)

• Mailing list

• Slack team with many topic channels

• IIIF Consortium

Community engagement is critical to success.

IIIF is a community

• Four API specifications

• W3C Web Annotations for transcripts, comments

How does IIIF work?

IIIF is a platform: OpenSeadragon

https://sandbox.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/kruger/id/1164

IIIF is a platform: Mirador

http://projectmirador.org/demo/

IIIF is a platform: Georeferencer

https://www.georeferencer.com/compare

• Support for IIIF Image and Presentation APIs

• Tens of millions of records accessible via those APIs

• Integration of OpenSeadragon image viewer

• Integration of the Mirador manuscript viewer

And what about CONTENTdm?

Minnesota Reflections

• Easier integration of Mirador

• Newspaper best practices

• Documenting and sharing others’ IIIF work

• Support for more IIIF APIs?

– Text annotations and Search API

– Authentication

What’s next for CONTENTdm?

• IIIF community resources:

– http://iiif.io/community/

• Awesome IIIF:

– https://github.com/IIIF/awesome-iiif

• CONTENTdm IIIF details:

– http://oc.lc/iiifandcontentdm

More information

Questions?

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