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Awesome IIIF-related resources

Awesome International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Awesome

A list of lists of awesome IIIF resources.

The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) is a group of standard APIs around sharing and reuse of media. It is also a growing community of galleries, libraries, archives, museums, companies, and others who develop the standards and interoperable software implementations. Content includes helpful links around each of the standards, demonstrations of their use, and tutorials and presentations. The list is especially helpful for orienting new community members and developers.

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Disclaimer: This list is created for informational purposes only and any links do not constitute an endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the IIIF Consortium.

Contents

Standards

The IIIF community has developed several standards for interoperable web-based image delivery.

  • Image API - Specifies a web service that returns an image in response to a standard HTTP or HTTPS request.
  • Presentation API - Provides the information necessary to allow a rich, online viewing environment for primarily image-based objects to be presented to a human user, likely in conjunction with the IIIF Image API.
  • Content Search API - Specifies interoperability mechanism for searching within annotations.
  • Authentication API - Describes a set of workflows for guiding the user through an existing access control system.
  • External Services API Annex - Describes the set of related services that have been identified as useful to reference from the IIIF APIs.
  • API Annex Documents - List of all API annex documents and API implementation notes.

Additional Lists

Image Servers

These servers support the IIIF Image API. Some may also have support for the Presentation API.

  • Loris - Written in Python.
  • IIPImage Server - High performance image server.
  • riiif - Written in Ruby as a Rails engine.
  • SIPI - IIIFv2 image server written in C++.
  • RAIS - 100% open source tile server for JP2 images written in Go.
  • digilib - Image server written in Java.
  • Cantaloupe - Image server written in Java.
  • iiif_s3 - Ruby library for generating a static IIIF level 0 Image and Presentation API server on Amazon S3.
  • Hymir IIIF Server - IIIF server written in Java supporting IIIF Image and Presentation API.
  • go-iiif - IIIF server written in go (fork of greut/iiif).
  • serverless-iiif - IIIF Image API 2.1 server as an AWS Serverless Application.

Image Server Shims

These shims allow you to use an image server that does not currently support IIIF. If you have not implemented an image server yet, this is probably not where you want to start.

Image Viewers

  • Universal Viewer - Rich embeddable interface.
  • OpenSeadragon - IIIF tile support.
  • Leaflet-IIIF - Lightweight, extensible IIIF image viewer.
  • Mirador - Multi-up workspace. See also Awesome Mirador list.
  • Diva.js - IIIF image viewer optimized for speed and flexibility.
  • IIIFViewer - IIIF WebGL / Canvas / DOM mobile-ready fast viewer powered by OpenLayers V3.
  • Tify - Slim and fast IIIF document viewer built with Vue.js.
  • IIIF Curation Viewer - A general IIIF viewer with added focus on curation and ordering of cropped IIIF images. Demo
  • CanvasPanel - React library to build IIIF Presentation 3 level viewing experiences including support for annotations.
  • OpenLayers - High-performance, feature-packed Javascript library especially built for maps. It supports the IIIF Image API 2.1.

Image API Libraries

  • iiif-apis - Java IIIF API libraries.
  • piffle - Python library for generating and parsing IIIF Image API URLs.
  • iiif_url - Ruby library for creating and parsing IIIF Image API URLs.
  • iiif - Python library providing a reference implementation of the Image API. Also includes a test server and static tile generator.
  • iOSTiledViewer - IIIF image API and Zoomify viewer for iOS, written in Swift.
  • image-iiif - A bring your own framework solution for implementing IIIF Image API 2.1 with PHP.
  • libvips - A fast image processing library with low memory needs. Includes an operation that can build image pyramids compatible with IIIF Image API.

Image Tools

Various tools for working with images such as cropping tools.

  • Leaflet-IIIF Cropping - Example of using Leaflet to provide IIIF cropping.
  • Stanford Cropper - Simple image cropper.
  • OpenSeadragon Cropping Tool - Script to allow for cropping an image from within OpenSeadragon.
  • Wikimedia Commons Image Cropper - Create IIIF image regions from image files at Wikimedia Commons.
  • IIIF-imageManipulation - UCD's tool to crop images and manipulate via IIIF attributes; integrate with Mirador via plugin.
  • Compariscope - A demo app by the Victoria & Albert useful for the alignment of overlayed images, served by the IIIF Image API, and providing an interactive viewer for overlayed images, presented fluidly, using responsive image tags.
  • IIIF cropping tool - Website using Leaflet-IIIF Cropping and Jekyll that allow users to enter the URL of a IIIF image and get the URL for the cropped section of the image.
  • iiif-dl - Command-line tile downloader/assembler for IIIF endpoints/manifests. Download full-resolution image sequences from any IIIF server.
  • dezoomify-rs - A command-line tiled image downloader. Support IIIF, Deepzoom and others zoomable image formats.

Presentation API Libraries

  • Manifesto - IIIF Presentation API client and server utility library.
  • Manifold - Wraps Manifesto to provide viewer state and related utilities.
  • O'Sullivan - Ruby API for creating IIIF manifests.
  • iiif-prezi - Python library providing a reference implementation.
  • iiif-apis - Java IIIF API libraries.
  • IIIF Manifest Generator - PHP library for generating IIIF manifests.
  • tabula-rasa - npm module for creating and manipulating IIIF manifests.
  • iiif-tree-component -IIIF tree menu sortable by date with multi-select capability.
  • Tripoli - IIIF Presentation API 2.0+ validation library.
  • ViewDir - Documentation on IIIF-related libraries and components, from an open community of designers and developers interested in creating composable and interoperable interfaces for consuming and creating online content.
  • Swiiift - IIIF presentation API library for Swift.

Presentation API Shims

These shims allow you to use systems with presentation metadata (e.g. structure or sequences) that do not currently support IIIF. If you have not implemented the Presentation API yet, this is probably not where you want to start.

  • Shimmy - Ruby gem designed to help you build shims for the IIIF Presentation API, and has samples for NYPL, Flickr, and the US National Archives.
  • Chronicling America - For newspapers digitized in the National Digital Newspaper Program.

Presentation Manifest Tools

  • Manifest Editor - Web application for importing, viewing, updating, and exporting manifests. See a demo.
  • demetsiiify - Web service for creating IIIF manifests from METS/MODS documents.
  • biiif - Organise your files according to a simple naming convention to generate IIIF v3 manifests.
  • iiif-producer - A CLI tool that generates IIIF Presentation 2.1 Manifests from METS/MODS (produced by Kitodo).
  • File Analyzer IIIF Manifest Generator from Existing Metadata - Georgetown's desktop application that will generate IIIF manifest files from existing metadata files.

Content Search API

Libraries and applications that support the Content Search API.

  • Ocracoke - Rails application to create, index, and search text from page images and provide results in IIIF Content Search API format.
  • Whiiif - Python/Flask/Solr application to index IIIF manifests alongside ALTO representations and provide a IIIF Content Search API endpoint.

Authentication

Some resources about the IIIF Authentication API.

Tutorials

Tutorials for how to accomplish functionality in your applications.

Videos and Slide Decks

Slide decks and presentation videos with a focus on IIIF.

Discovery

Links to help you discover IIIF resources that have been shared, demonstrations of IIIF discovery and useful discovery tools.

  • iiif-universe - Repository that includes links to known IIIF presentation manifest collections.
  • iNQUIRE demo - Open-source IIIF-compliant research and discovery platform. This is the IIIF-compliant version of the platform driving [Digital Bodleian] (http://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/).
  • iNQUIRE source - Github repository for iNQUIRE.
  • Musiclibs - Provides cross-library search of thousands of musical scores and manuscripts.
  • IIIF Explorer - OCLC's IIIF Explorer is a prototype application that searches across images (all IIIF-enabled) in the CONTENTdm digital content management systems hosted by OCLC.
  • Europeana's IIIF filtered search - Europeana provides a filter to identify all IIIF-enabled resources in its collections.
  • IIIF Discovery in Japan - Prototype discovery system for IIIF resources in Japan.
  • Biblissima IIIF-Collections - Prototype application that allows you to search across IIIF-compliant manuscripts and rare books dated before 1800.

Import to Viewers

  • Open in IIIF Viewer - A web browser extension to open IIIF manifest link in your favorite IIIF viewer.

Annotations

While annotations are not specified by IIIF they are an important enabling technology.

Annotation Servers

  • Local IIIF Annotation Server - Jekyll front end, Flask backend, equipped with Vagrant Box that provides a Mirador viewer for creating and save annotations into Jekyll site. Annotations are sharable by using GitHub pages with Jekyll front end.
  • MangoServer - Mongo-backed annotation server written in Python.
  • SimpleAnnotationServer - Java annotation server backed by an Apache Jena triple store, Sesame, or Solr.
  • Elucidate - Java and Postgres annotation server.
  • ipfs-iiif-db - IIIF annotations JS client over IPFS.
  • annotot - Simple IIIF annotations mounted in a Ruby on Rails applications.

Annotation Clients

  • IIIF Annotation Studio - Mirador Viewer packaged as a desktop app (macos, linux) with an embedded annotation endpoint that saves annotations to a local sqlite database.

CMS Integration

Content Management Systems (CMS) modules that implement or leverage the IIIF APIs.

  • IIIF Image Field - Drupal 7 module that provides an easy way to add IIIF Images to content types, and configure their display. Supports Image API versions 1.0 or 2.0.
  • UniversalViewer Omeka S Module - Omeka S module that integrates UniversalViewer.
  • IIIF Server Omeka S Module - Omeka S module that implements the IIIF Image and Presentation APIs.
  • Mirador Viewer Omeka S Module - Omeka S module that integrates the Mirador image viewer.
  • IIIF Toolkit - IIIF Toolkit by University of Toronto Libraries is a plugin for Omeka Classic (2.3+) that integrates Mirador with a built-in annotator, a manifest generator, Simple Pages shortcodes and Exhibit Builder blocks for a rich presentation experience.

Newspapers

These are resources that are specifically useful for working with newspapers. Many of them are outputs of the IIIF Newspaper Community Group.

STEM

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math/Medicine

  • CellXplorer - Cell biology annotations in a deep zoom viewer.

Experiments and Fun

  • Puzzles! Powered by IIIF - Drag-and-drop image tile puzzles created by Michael Appleby, Yale Center for British Art.
  • Slider puzzles - More drag-and-drop puzzles and a Medieval Word Maker, created by Ben Albritton, Stanford University Libraries.
  • David Rumsey MapTab - A IIIF powered, Chrome extension that displays a random map from the David Rumsey Map Collection everytime you open a new tab in your browser. Built using Leaflet-IIIF and React.js. Created by Jack Reed, Stanford University Libraries.
  • Fractals - Deep zoom into a huge (1bn x 1bn pixel) fractal image, created by Sean Martin, Applied IIIF.
  • The Transcriptinator - A prototype "game" created for use on the British Library's crowd-sourcing arcade machine. Players have to flag up errors in the OCR transcriptions of content taken from the Qatar Digital Library. Created by Jon White and Tristan Roddis, Cogapp.
  • IIIF Gallery - A virtual art gallery using OpenSeadragon and custom image generation, created by Stephen Fraser, Digirati. Also see full source code.
  • Exquisite Corpse - A prototype that deliberately mixes up portrait paintings. Created using Node.js by Jeff Steward, Harvard Art Museums.
  • 3D trade cards explorer - A 3D environment that displays nineteenth-century trade cards from the Boston Public Library. Designed to be viewed on a mobile phone, ideally with Google Cardboard. Created using three.js by Jon White, Cogapp.
  • Sleep Stories - Experiment with the W3C Web Annotation Data Model. The annotations present a sequence of stories associated with a large image. Optimised for mobile. Created by Andrew Dyton and Stephen Fraser, Digirati, for Wellcome Collection.
  • Image Comparison with a Slider - Image comparison using leaflet slider by Digirati.
  • Image Comparison with a Magnifying Glass - Image comparison using leaflet magnifying glass by Digirati.
  • X-raying Balenciaga - Beautiful use of IIIF images to show X-rays of Balenciaga fashion by the Victoria & Albert Museum.
  • Storiiies - Cogapp's showcase of recent experiments in digital storytelling using IIIF.
  • Old Map Room - An AppleTV application that uses IIIF to turn any room into a map room.
  • ANTLITZ.NINJA - Award-winning digital art app that cuts and re-combines historical portraits. Based on IIIF.
  • cover.boutique - Award-winning web application to create designs for smartphone cases from IIIF resources.
  • Animal Crossing Art Generator - Getty's tool leverages IIIF to create custom patterns featuring artwork from famous art collections around the world.

Community

IIIF is a community-based initiative that relies on active participation, discussion, and input. To get involved and learn more, see the IIIF Community page.

Digital Asset Management (DAMs) that support IIIF

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