Presented at 'Big Reveal' Manuscript and Conservation event: http://whelf.ac.uk/the-big-reveal-showcasing-collections-made-accessible-by-conservation/

1. IIIF
Glen Robson @glenrobson
Head of Systems

2. http://iiif.io
• International Image Interoperability Framework
• Key features
– Interoperable Images
– Interoperable Viewers
– Interoperable Collections
• Defines two standards
– Image API
– Presentation API
• Uses (Annotations) Open Annotations W3C

3. Community
National Libraries
• Austria
• British Library
• France
• Denmark
• Egypt
• Israel
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Poland
• Serbia
• Vatican
• Wales
http://www.slideshare.net/azaroth42/introduction-to-iiif
Research Institutions
• C2RMF (France)
• Cornell University
• Johns Hopkins Univ.
• Harvard University
• Oxford University
• Princeton University
• Stanford University
• Wellcome Library
• Yale University
• plus several more
Museums
• YCBA
• British Museum
Aggregators
• Artstor
• DPLA
• Europeana
Projects
• Biblissima
• e-codices
• TPEN
• TextGrid

4. Interoperable Images
http://projectmirador.org/

5. http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4574752

6. Interoperable Collections
http://stanford.io/1PW789d

7. Digital Reconstruction
http://demos.biblissima-condorcet.fr/chateauroux/osd-demo/

8. Aggregators
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search?f[PROVIDER][]=Europeana+280&q=DATA_PROVID
ER%3A%22National+Library+of+Wales%22&view=grid

9. Simple Annotation Server
• https://github.com/glenrobson/SimpleAnnotationServer
• Stores IIIF Annotations
• Includes instructions on editing Newspaper OCR

10. Annotation (Transcription)

12. ConservationSpace
• Mellon funded project
• https://sites.google.com/site/conservationspa
ce/
• Project to manage and document the
conservation process
• Take photographs before and after
conservation
• Uses Mirador to annotate regions that have
been conserved or require conservation.

13. IIIF Setup
• Do it your self
– IIIF Image Server (IIP, Loris)
– Manifest generator
• Commercial hosting solutions
– Digiarti https://dlcs.gitbooks.io/book/content/
– Klokan http://www.iiifhosting.com/
• NLW looking at hosting
– Digitisation, hosting, manifest building and
transcription
• Europeana

14. Summary
• IIIF good for digitsiation
– Viewers
• IIIF good for sharing
– Researchers can use their own tools
– Can gather distributed collections
• IIIF good for transcription
• Updates on twitter: @glenrobson

15. Cymru1914 Content
• http://dev.llgc.org.uk/iiif/arcw.html