IIIF at Vanderbilt: Enhancing Faculty Teaching and Research

Jeffrey C. Witt (Loyola University Maryland)
https://jeffreycwitt.com | jcwitt@loyola.edu
@jeffreycwitt

April 17, 2023, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Slide Deck: http://jeffreycwitt.com/slides/2023-04-17-iiif-at-vanderbilt

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

The Value of IIIF Comes into Focus When we see the Value of Separating... --- **Data** and **Presentation**

## Benefits over time 1. Expanded Scale 2. Increased Transparency 3. New Discoveries

# Outline 1. IIIF: a bird's eye view 1. Examples

## IIIF: a bird's eye view

### API as a Contract A contract between image data **suppliers** and UI **implementors** who "present" image data to downstream **users/readers**

### IIIF Image API

#### Lack of standards prevents interoperability What does 10,20,300,500 mean? Does it mean 10 pixels wide and 20 pixels high, starting at x=300 and y=500? Or does it mean 300 pixels wide, 500 pixels high, starting at x=10 and y=20?

There is no "IIIF Image Server"

There are MANY IIIF compliant servers

IIIF Image API

{scheme}://{server}{/prefix}/{identifier}/{region}/{size}/{rotation}/{quality}.{format} https://iiif.io/api/image/3.0/#4-image-requests

http://www.appliediiif.org.uk/live/index.html

### IIIF Presentation API (version 2.1.0)

Video Overview of the Manifest and Canvas

## In Sum

### Lots of existing training material https://iiif.io/guides/ https://training.iiif.io/

## Examples of Data Re-Use in Multiple Presentations

### Annotations as a Guided Tour Through an Image

#### Compare and Inspect Distributed Images

Nashville 1895 Manifest https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/iiif/m/RUMSEY~8~1~26902~1100201/manifest

Nashville 1901 Manifest https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/iiif/m/RUMSEY~8~1~273811~90047347/manifest

Nashville 1929 Manifest https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/iiif/m/RUMSEY~8~1~310514~90080184/manifest

Manifest for Image with Fort on St. Could Hill https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/iiif/m/RUMSEY~8~1~26953~1100252/manifest

#### Collaboratively Annotate and Re-Present

Slide Deck built from social annotations https://jeffreycwitt.com/annotations-display/slidesWeb.html https://jeffreycwitt.com/annotations-display/slides.html

## A case study: ### using IIIF to help create and publish "transparent" digital editions

# Questions/Discussion