What’s Now and What’s Next for IIIF

LDCX Lightning Talk

March 26, 2019

Josh Hadro
Managing Director
IIIF Consortium

What is IIIF?

• Web-friendly deep zoom and manipulation of high-resolution images (Image API)
• Standardized means of presenting annotation, comments, and links (Presentation API)
• Vehicle for accessing transcriptions and OCR (Search API)
• Lightweight authentication flows (Auth API)

What is IIIF?

Grain elevators, Caldwell, Idaho, by Lee Russell, 1941.
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsac.1a34206/

 APIs -> Framework -> Ecosystem

Where is IIIF going?

IIIF A/V

• Formal inclusion of Audio/Visual materials and annotation in v3 of the Presentation API spec
  • Streaming files in manifests
  • Annotations in time dimension as well as x/y dimensions
•  Coming this summer

IIIF Discovery

• Standardize patterns that will facilitate discovery, harvesting and synchronization, indexing, and importing of IIIF resources
• Transferrable content state

Where is IIIF going
after all that?

• IIIF as onramp to machine learning (excellent fodder for countless projects)
• Making it easier for institutions of all sizes and means to participate in a global cultural heritage context

Let's talk!

• josh.hadro@iiif.io
• @hadro on Twitter