awesome-iiif
github.com/iiif/awesome-iiif ↗Awesome IIIF-related resources
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Experiments and Fun
- 3D trade cards explorer
A 3D environment that displays nineteenth-century trade cards from the
- Animal Crossing Art Generator
Getty's tool leverages IIIF to create custom patterns featuring artwork from famous art collections around the world.
- ANTLITZ.NINJA
Award-winning digital art app that cuts and re-combines historical portraits. Based on IIIF.
- Atlascope
a tool for exploring historic urban atlases in metropolitan Boston and telling stories about how places have changed over time.
- cover.boutique
Award-winning web application to create designs for smartphone cases from IIIF resources.
- 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.
Annotations
- AdnoAnnotation Clients
a web application for viewing, editing and sharing narratives and pathways on IIIF images.
- aiiinotateAnnotation Servers
IIIF annotation server built for speed and scalability, based on NodeJS and MongoDB. Designed to handle massive quantities of annotations (>10M) produced by computer vision tools.
- ALTO to Annotation list
This XSLT converts an ALTO xml document to an annotation lists for use with a IIIF manifests.
- Annocoda
Mobile-friendly web app that uses IIIF Content Search 2.0 and Presentation 3.0 to provide image search capabilities
- Annona Annotation Library: iiif-annotation viewer JavaScript library
JavaScript library that uses custom tags and url of the annotation to load annotated image, corresponding annotations, tags, and text into HTML object or OpenSeadragon viewer with overlays.
- AnnonatateAnnotation Clients
Website that allows users to create annotations via their GitHub account. The website saves all the annotations to the user's GitHub. Also makes use of Annona and allows users to create custom Annona views.
IIIF Viewers
- Allmaps
- AnnotoriousImage viewers (Image API only)
OpenSeadragon plugin for annotation display and editing.
- Archive Viewer
A viewer for scanned images from various archives and repositories. (Presentation API v2 only)
- CanvasPanel
React library to build IIIF Presentation 3 level viewing experiences including support for annotations.
- Chronoscope World
- Clover IIIF Viewer
Exhibition and Guided Viewing Tools
- Anaver.se
a web application for loading generative 3D spaces in which users can build exhibitions by hanging IIIF images as frames.
- Annona Range Storyboard
- Canopy IIIF
Create fast & light digital collections, humanities, and exhibitions with natural markdown and IIIF materials
- Curation Tools
Set of tools, including a Viewer, Curation Manager, Curation Board, and more from the Center for Open Data in the Humanities (all tool descriptions in Japanese, some also available in English).
- Exhibit
A free IIIF storytelling tool that allows for guided navigation of one or more IIIF Manifests using annotations.
- Exhibition Editor
an extension to the
Videos and Slide Decks
- An Introduction to the International Image Interoperability Framework
Presentation introducing IIIF for new audiences as "the API for humans" - also contains videos from other IIIF presentations.
- Collection of slide decks
From various IIIF events.
- DHtech Workshop: Image Servers and IIIF
Slides and recording from a DARIAH-DE workshop in 2018 by Robert Casties.
- IIIF For Small Projects
How IIIF can be used on small projects with limited infrastructure, presented at
- IIIF Tutorials (German)
YouTube playlist from the Zurich Central Library (Zentralbibliothek Zürich).
- Image API Introduction
High level overview of the Image API parameters.
Collection Management Systems (CMSs) and Digital Asset Management (DAMs) that support IIIF
Tutorials
- Archiviiify
A short guide to download digitized books from Internet Archive and rehost on your own infrastructure using IIIF with full-text search [from raffaele messuti /
- Drag and Drop
Getting a IIIF image into Mirador with drag-and-drop and email.
- Experiments with IIIF and Gallica
A guided tour of end user applications of IIIF to Gallica materials, by Jean-Philippe Moreux (BnF).
- Fellow Travelers: The Canterbury Tales and IIIF
Benjamin Albritton; includes an explanation of the use case for medieval scholars using Chaucer as an example and short section on how to make a page comparison demo in Mirador.
- IIIF Implementation Guide
A step-by-step walkthrough of how to implement IIIF.
- IIIF Intro (fr)
Introduction to IIIF (in French).
Standards
- Authorization Flow API
Control and restrict access by creating a link to a user interface for logging in and services that provide credentials.
- Change Discovery API
Harvest any changes published by organizations that deliver digital objects.
- Content Search API
Perform search for text within or annotations related to digital objects.
- Content State API
Generate a very specific link to a particular view of an object, like a specific area on a particular page rotated at a certain angle.
- Georeference ExtensionIIIF Extensions
This extension leverages Web Annotations to provide a pattern for georeferencing IIIF Presentation 3 API Canvases as well as Images served through the IIIF Image API, containing (historical) maps.
- Image API
Retrieves images from anywhere in the world and allows the user to select an area of the image and to resize, rotate, and edit the quality.
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