What you'll need during the workshop
Modern browser, Internet access
A modern browser, with access to the Internet to allow you to use the online tools and content that we'll leverage during the workshop.
Aim of the workshop
In this hands-on workshop we will help you start to get familiar with IIIF, providing you with the initial insights required when considering it for your collections. We will then guide you through the steps required to publish your own IIIF digital object (known as a Manifest) using the easy-to-use tools provided by the TaNC IIIF Sandbox set up by Digirati.
By the end of the workshop we will have covered the basics of the IIIF Image API and the IIIF Presentation API, providing you with a foundation to explore further. You can continue to use your sandbox to experiment and try out further activities in your own time.
Note there are a number of great online resources to enable you to learn more about IIIF in your own time or as part of an expert-led training course. The IIIF Consortium’s online training is a great place to start - and if you want to try going further today with any area you can refer to their course syllabus here: https://training.iiif.io/iiif-online-workshop/index.html
Assets, IIIF Manifests and IIIF Collections
Access to assets to use during the workshop. Ideally, to start you'll have some images that you can upload to create IIIF enabled images.
:::info If you have access to existing IIIF images, these can be used, but you'll want to access to upload the images into your sandbox IIIF Cloud Services instance so you can complete that stage of the workshop. :::
These can then be used as part of building your own IIIF Manifests.
Ideally if you have some IIIF resources that you would like to work with that would help - but not essential if you’ve not selected some or don’t yet know what you wish to build.
We have gathered some examples to help inspire, see Examples of IIIF to explore
Tools
IIIF Cloud Services - a TaNC Sandbox
The Digirati IIIF Cloud Services is an open scalable solution for hosting, managing and delivery of IIIF enabled resources. The service supports the efficient storage of images and other digital assets. It supports fast image delivery at multiple resolutions and provides interoperability and support for IIIF APIs. It allows the creation and management of IIIF content including Manifests and Collections where they can be published.
Theseus
Theseus Viewer is a IIIF-compliant, reference viewer that allows users to view, navigate, and interact with digital collections of images, audio, and video, especially in the context of cultural heritage and research applications.
Theseus is very user friendly, will allow you to share your content with others, and also has wide support for the almost all aspects of the features IIIF provides.
Universal Viewer
Originally created by Digirati for the Wellcome Library and then extended to cover the British Library’s broad set of use cases as a single ‘Universal Viewer’. It has established itself as a popular community-driven IIIF viewer used by leading cultural institutions across the world supporting image. audio, video, and pdf as IIIF viewing experiences.
The British Library is now leading further developments of this open source project with their own dedicated team. Recent community sprints have also occurred to help address and enhance accessibility of the tool.