Introduction to IIIF
Location
Room 207/205. Utah State University, Logan, UT
Document Type
Lightning Talk
Start Date
23-2-2018 3:00 PM
End Date
23-2-2018 3:30 PM
Description
Do you work with images all the time? Images present a unique challenge in that, lot of important content, gets locked up in the format. For example, when newspapers or manuscripts are digitized, they are stored as images in digital libraries, and text is extracted where feasible using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) techniques. Research scholars and interested users might find themselves needing to resize, crop, rotate images and in some cases, may need to request high resolution images from institutions that have them. For institutions, maintaining images presents its own challenges - they need to find right balance between digitizing images at the highest possible resolution (so as not to go back and digitize them again) and optimizing images based on storage considerations. Invariably, the highest resolution images are tucked away in dark archives while low resolution images are made available (where copyright permits) openly on web.
International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) presents a solution to these problems. It is a “community working together to create, test, refine, implement and promote shared application programming interface (API) specifications for interoperable functionality for digital image repositories” [1]. In simple terms, it is a set of APIs used for image delivery that presents an opportunity for scholars to use images in a highly effective yet simple way and for the institutions to manage images effectively. This lightning talk will present a brief introduction of IIIIF, focusing on it will benefit both the institutions implementing it and research scholars interested in using images.
Introduction to IIIF
Room 207/205. Utah State University, Logan, UT
Do you work with images all the time? Images present a unique challenge in that, lot of important content, gets locked up in the format. For example, when newspapers or manuscripts are digitized, they are stored as images in digital libraries, and text is extracted where feasible using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) techniques. Research scholars and interested users might find themselves needing to resize, crop, rotate images and in some cases, may need to request high resolution images from institutions that have them. For institutions, maintaining images presents its own challenges - they need to find right balance between digitizing images at the highest possible resolution (so as not to go back and digitize them again) and optimizing images based on storage considerations. Invariably, the highest resolution images are tucked away in dark archives while low resolution images are made available (where copyright permits) openly on web.
International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) presents a solution to these problems. It is a “community working together to create, test, refine, implement and promote shared application programming interface (API) specifications for interoperable functionality for digital image repositories” [1]. In simple terms, it is a set of APIs used for image delivery that presents an opportunity for scholars to use images in a highly effective yet simple way and for the institutions to manage images effectively. This lightning talk will present a brief introduction of IIIIF, focusing on it will benefit both the institutions implementing it and research scholars interested in using images.