IIIF for Educators

What Does IIIF Stand For?

💡 Concept

IIIF "Literacy"

1. the ability to read and write ✔
2. competence or knowledge in a specified area.

Indicators of IIIF Literacy

1. proper pronunciation of the term "iiif"
2. a happy sensation seeing the logo

Proper Pronunciation of "iiif"

• "triple-eye eff"
• "eye triple eff"
• "eye, eye, eye, eff"
• "¡Ay, ay, ay eff!"

What Does IIIF Stand For?

1. High quality authentic cultural heritage content as objects of inquiry
2. Global community of smart people from many fields with a shared interest
3. Empowered users and re-users
4. Nifty tools and gadgets, from DIY to DDIY
5. also: The International Image Interoperability Framework

Glosses

• Interoperability: the ability to share and access digital images, audio, and video in a standardized way

*a standardized method of describing and delivering images over the web, as well as "presentation based metadata" (that is, structural metadata) about structured sequences of images. If institutions holding artworks, books, newspapers, manuscripts, maps, scrolls, single sheet collections, and archival materials provide IIIF endpoints for their content, any IIIF-compliant viewer or application can consume and display both the images and their structural and presentation metadata." (Thanks, Wikipedia!)

• OpenSeadragon: "an open-source, web-based viewer for high-resolution zoomable images, implemented in pure JavaScript, for desktop and mobile"

Axes To Grind

• IIIF is not an acronym. It's a logo
• To understand IIIF, you have to look with your hands, and think with your eyes

🖥️ Hands-On Activity

🫵 Proof of Concept (Your Turn)