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: 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?
Please submit your questionsto “All Participants” in the chat box.