The International ImageInteroperability Framework

6th NovemberMCN 2015 Minneapolis

Andy Cummins, Cogapp - @qmins

Tristan Roddis, Cogapp - @tristan_roddis

Alan Newman, National Gallery of Art - @AlanNew

David Beaudet, National Gallery of Art - d-beaudet@nga.gov

Melissa Gold Fournier, Yale Center for British Art

A Whirlwind Tour of IIIF

● What is IIIF? - International Image Interoperability Framework

● A standard for requesting images and metadata over the web

● Allows for flexibility in the returned assets and metadata

● There are two parts to this framework

Image API

● Historically you have a set of image derivatives

● With IIIF you have free rein to request any derivative you need

● Just amend URL parameters to specify what you need

● Dimensions, zoom, crop, rotation

Potential Uses

Presentation API

● Provides metadata about your images in a standardised way

● This is all delivered in a manifest file in JSON format

● Tombstone information for a collection item, copyright information as well as

relations to other items

● This common format allows users to make use of alternate viewers

Alternate Viewers- Mirador

- Internet Archive Book Reader

- Scholars can use the tools they are

most comfortable with

- Code can be shared between

institutions as it’s based on a

common standard

- iiif.io for more info

IIIF: The International Image Interoperability Framework

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed,

1818, Oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

In the digital realm, the Center’s goal is to share its open

digital resources in formats that allow for easy creative and scholarly reuse in

order to contribute to the study of British Art worldwide.

About the Center

Yale University’s Open Access Policy

General Principle:

The preservation, transmission, and advancement of knowledge in the digital age are promoted by the creative use and reuse of digitized content for research, teaching, learning, and creative activities. The goal of digitization is to enhance access to the collections in Yale’s museums, archives, and libraries for students, faculty, and the world.

To this end, Yale will make digital copies of unrestricted public domain collections available for use without limitations through the University’s electronic interfaces.

Detail

Peter Gaspar Scheemakers, 1691–1781, Alexander Pope, ca.1740, Marble, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Compare Images

Louis François Roubiliac, 1702–1762, Alexander Pope, 1741, Marble, Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul Mellon in memory of the British art historian Basil Taylor (1922–1975)

Compare Images

John Constable, 1776–1837, Hadleigh Castle, The Mouth of the Thames--Morning after a Stormy Night, 1829, Oil on canvas, 48 x 64 ¾ in (121.9 x 164.5 cm), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

John Constable, 1776–1837, Sketch for ‘Hadleigh Castle’ c. 1828 -1829, Oil paint on canvas, 1226 x 1673 mm, Tate Gallery

Alfred Joseph Woolmer, 1805-1892, British, Interior of the British Institution (Old Master Exhibition, Summer 1832), detail, 1833, Oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Create online galleries

Annotate images

Edward Lear, 1812–1888, Sunset along the Nile, 1867, Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper,

Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

Goals of IIIF

To develop, cultivate and document shared technologies that provide a world-class user experience in viewing, comparing, manipulating and annotating images.

To give scholars an unprecedented level of uniform and rich access to image-based resources hosted around the world.

To define a set of common application programming interfaces that support interoperability between image repositories.

Digital Strategy

Use technology to make collections as widely accessible as possible

• Open Access policy• Data exchange standards and protocols• Open source tools• Linked Open Data

User Access

Machine Readable Access – Data exchange standards

• Linked Open Data semantic endpoint

• CIDOC-CRM

• OAI-PMH • LIDO XML

Unknown artist, 16th century, An Allegory of the Tudor Succession: The Family of Henry VIII, ca. 1590, Oil on panel, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

A good marriage

IIIF compliant image server & JPEG 2000Yale Center for British Art

Zoom via IIPMooViewer

Art in Focus: Gazes Returned, The Technical Examination of Early English Panel Painting, an exhibition on view at the Yale Center for British Art, April 13, 2012 - December 9, 2012.

Photo: Richard Caspole, Yale Center for British Art

“Reformation to Restoration” Project

Collect and compare a range of visual materialYale Center for British Art

Unknown artist (formerly attributed to Steven van der Meulen), 16th century, Portrait of a Young Woman, (detail) 1567, Oil on panel, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

An example

An example, continued

Annotation and sharing

Thank you

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edward.town@yale.edujessica.david@yale.edu

melissa.fournier@yale.edu

Qatar Digital Librarywww.qdl.qa

http://labs.cogapp.com/iiifhttp://labs.cogapp.com/transcriptinator

NGA Demo

https://youtu.be/1iADkg_nOiU

Any questions? You know you want to...

Andy Cummins, Cogapp - @qmins

Tristan Roddis, Cogapp - @tristan_roddis

Alan Newman, National Gallery of Art - @AlanNew

David Beaudet, National Gallery of Art - d-beaudet@nga.gov

Melissa Gold Fournier, Yale Center for British Art