introduction
Hi! Nice to meet you.
some slides
Crash course on the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF)
activity
IIIF in practice + How does Wax create "static" IIIF?
i'm a senior research data engineer
i help run digital humanities at nyu
i'm a minimal computing advocate and software maintainer
why? | what? | how? |
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to share images and other media*in context* for easy and inventive (re)use | community-created standards and API specifications | ecosystem of open source software and 100s of adopting institutions |
APIs function as a sort of agreement between two parts of a system or different systems that data will consistently go in one way and out another way, allowing you to switch out different pieces
Like swapping out a front end
Or a back end
Or both!
Le manuscrit 5 de la Bibliothèque municipale de Châteauroux, c. 1460. Folio in BVMM, miniature in the BNF.