Intro to IIIF and IIIF @NLW

IIIF

Glen Robson @glenrobson

Head of Systems

http://iiif.io

• International Image Interoperability Framework• Key features

– Interoperable Images– Interoperable Viewers– Interoperable Collections

• Defines four standards– Image API– Presentation API– Authentication API– Search API

• Uses (Annotations) Web Annotations W3C

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

Image API

http://host:port/prefix/identifier/region/size/rotation/quality.jpg

http://dams.llgc.org.uk/iiif/2.0/image/logo/full/400,/0/default.jpg

http://resources.digirati.com/iiif/an-introduction-to-iiif/

http://resources.digirati.com/iiif/an-introduction-to-iiif/

Presentation API

A thing e.g. Book, Newspaper, Painting

A collection of canvases e.g. pages in a book

View of the page

Images/Annotations/Video

http://resources.digirati.com/iiif/an-introduction-to-iiif/

Annotating Canvases

http://resources.digirati.com/iiif/an-introduction-to-iiif/

http://resources.digirati.com/iiif/an-introduction-to-iiif/

Digital Reconstruction

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

http://resources.digirati.com/iiif/an-introduction-to-iiif/

Interoperable Images

http://projectmirador.org/

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

IIIF Search API

IIIF Authentication

• Login – The user will be required to log in using a separate window with

a UI provided by an external authentication system.

• Click through – The user will be required to click a button within the client using

content provided in the service description.

• Kiosk– The user will not be required to interact with an authentication

system, the client is expected to use the access cookie service automatically.

• External– The user is expected to have already acquired the appropriate

cookie, and the access cookie service will not be used at all.

Joining the Community

• Iiif-discuss and slack• Fortnightly telephone calls• Interest groups; Newspapers, Manuscripts,

Museums and Software developers • Technical groups; Audio/Visual and Discovery• Two meetings a year 1 in Europe 1 in US or

Canada – Next meeting in Rome next week - Conference– Workshop meeting - Toronto

• Implement IIIF

Cynefin

cynefin.archiveswales.org.uk

New Catalogue!

• (December 2015)• ExLibris - Primo and Alma

• http://discover.library.wales

• Redevelop our viewers– Replace lots of XSL METS Viewers with one viewer– Access through the Universal Viewer– Over 200,000 manifests– Over 1,109,768 images

http://discover.library.wales

Journals

• Two projects– JISC funded Modern Welsh Journals

• 20th Century • 50 Titles• Articles• In copyright

– Historical Journals• 19th Century• 455 Titles• No Articles• Around 1 million pages

• Developing on top of IIIF– Sitemap of Journal titles– Indexing IIIF Manifests and Collections and EDM– Indexing Annotation Lists to produce Search API

Reuse

• Reuse for research

• Reuse to enable better discovery

Interoperable Collections

http://stanford.io/1PW789d

Aggregators

Content Specific Aggregators

https://dev.musiclibs.net/?q=wales

Newspapers

• IIIF Collections, Manifests and annotation lists (pre 1890)• http://dev.llgc.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=IIIF_Newspapers• IIIF Search API soon• Machine learning

– Welsh Scientists– Crimes

• Data Challenges:– http://dev.llgc.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Data_Challenges– Welsh Ships– Image analysis of Cynefin Maps

Crowdsourcing

• Engage people with our collections• Make items more discoverable

• Mostly with in person volunteers– Started with spreadsheets

• Aberystywth Shipping Records• Difficult to make data available

– Book of Remembrance – Wales at War– Aberystwyth Student Records

• Some crowd sourced:– Cynefin– Wales 1900

Simple Annotation Server

• https://github.com/glenrobson/SimpleAnnotationServer

• Stores IIIF Annotations

• Includes instructions on editing Newspaper OCR

http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4642022

Lessons

• Mostly project funded• Need a generic extensible solution• Need to annotate about the image not always inside

the image.• Move from project to program• Open source

• Went out to Tender– Digiarti were successful– Prototype end of March– Delivery end of June

Gwilym Livingstone Evans

WW1 Tribunal Records

Thomas Pennant, A tour in Wales1773 - 1776

Named Entity Recognition

How to start with IIIF

• Do it your self

– IIIF Image Server (IIP, Loris)

• Most people use JPEG2000

– Manifest generator

• Commercial hosting solutions

– Digiarti https://dlcs.gitbooks.io/book/content/

– Klokan http://www.iiifhosting.com/

• Europeana

Bodleian Manifest Editor

http://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/manifest-editor/

Summary

• IIIF an exciting development in cultural heritage

• Gaining traction

• Makes it easy to work with digitised content

• Great for sharing and research.

Questions

• Twitter: @glenrobson