Europeana & IIIFWhat have wee been doing with IIIF and why?

David Haskiya | IIIF Outreach - Amsterdam 2016

Danse de trois faunes et trois bacchantes, Hieronymus Hopfer, Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, Public Domain

What and who is Europeana?

• We’re a non-profit foundation - idealists and true believers

• A network of like-minded heritage and technology professionals

• An open data platform with many services and drawing on the

collections of nearly 4000 European GLAMs

• Europeana Collections, Europeana APIs

The GLAMwiki toolsetCC BY-SA

“We want to build on Europe’s rich heritage and make it easier for people to use, whether for work, for learning or just for fun! ”

Outline of my talk

• Why do we support IIIF?

• How do we support IIIF?• Community, Data model (EDM), Display, Distribution

• Ongoing and future development of interest• Improved display/viewer

• Shared (IIIF) Image Service

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Why support IIIF?

Netherlands, CC BY-SA

1911, Circus Museum

Troupe Banola leur dernière création

What our users say• Immediate access to full and high-res imagery and multi-page

documents is something all users want (whether casual or

professional)

• Some users have specific needs and pain points• Designers looking for visual inspiration

• Art historians looking closely, so closely, at a specific work of art, seeing the

shape of the brush strokes, the crackelations of the canvas

• Historically Europeana has been very metadata centric. Storing

and serving digital media, on behalf of partners, is a major step

towards an updated value proposition to partners and users

both.

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Why support IIIF?

“ We want to build on Europe’s rich heritage and make it

easier for people to use, whether for work, for learning

or just for fun.”

• Supporting IIIF will help in fulfilling the mission.

• We believe that for all GLAMs who have missions relating to

public access and facilitating research IIIF will also support

their mission fulfilment.

When in doubt check your mission!

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How will do we support IIIF?

Netherlands, CC BY-SACircus MuseumAnonymousCirque de Moscou

Community

• We’re happy and proud to have joined the IIIF community as a

founding member!

• Within the community we are especially engaged in the

Newspapers special interest group and in prototyping using

IIIF in web discovery and metadata harvesting

• And we support the idea to try to extend IIIF to other types of

media, esp. audio-visual, sometimes called IxIF

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Data model and harvesting• We have updated our Europeana Data Model mapping guidelines to

include instructions on how to provide IIIF images and manifests (PDF)

as part of an EDM WebResource representation

• We have harvested and mapped two datasets - University of

Heidelberg and e-Codices, to include their IIIF manifests in the data

they provide to us

• We also have a couple of partners whose we IIIF-resources we display

via a bit of a workaround, e.g. Gallica/BNF.

• Get in touch with out Data Partner Services team if you have

IIIF-resources and want them displayed in Europeana!

• Let’s take a look at them and also our display!

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Display & Distribution

• Our first viewer implementation in Europeana Collections is

deliberately simple

• Records with IIIF images and manifests provided to us in the

metadata are retrievable via the Europeana REST-API allowing

also 3rd-party developers to display IIIF resources via the

Europeana API

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Ongoing and future development?

Crazed Farmers during the performance at Klub Gromka, Janez Gerčar, Culture.si, CC-BY-ND

Improved display• Our viewer implementation is deliberately basic.

• UX research is needed before we go more ambitious. Simple is also a good

thing! If we add power and complexity we need to know it’s for a good

reason.

• But we have some ideas based on our experience so far:• Better support for multi-page documents e.g. books and other texts

• Clearer pagination esp. in full-screen mode

• Support embedding of the viewer outside of Europeana (given certain

copyright criteria). Also to support increased use of the viewer on our own

sites, embedded, in virtual exhibitions and other Europeana web pages

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Newspaper viewer

A small to medium GLAM experience“We scanned our maps in really high-quality. We knew that was the only way to do it, if we hadn’t we’d have to rescan those same maps all over again a couple of years from now.

The problem is that we can’t make those high-resolution maps available in a good way on our website. They take ages to load and sometimes don’t load at all while at the same time overloading our server. We looked into developing a zoomable image service but the technical difficulties and thus the cost was too high. So now we have the high quality maps but can’t offer them to our users in they way they would wish.”

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Shared image service• We have set up a IIIF compatible image server as part of and

for the Europeana Newspapers project.

• But, we have thousands of other data partners with image

collections. Should they all individually develop an IIIF-server?

Some can and will. But for most it’s beyond their technical or

financial capabilities.

• So we are developing a “Shared Image Service”, IIIF compatible,

for use by all Europeana data partners who want to support

IIIF, but don’t have the means to do so themselves. Let me

know if you’d like to alpha test!

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Alpha test object - orig

inally a

320 Mb TIFF

Alpha test object - orig

inally a 320

Mb TIFF

Takeaways• Why does Europeana want to support IIIF?

• Because it helps us, and our partners, fulfill our mission(s) and it helps

our users

• How does Europeana support IIIF in practice?• By display, by sharing services and IIIF-resources, by joining and

supporting the community

• What are Europeana’s plans for further IIIF-related

development?• Improved display and shareability of IIIF resources

• Increased use of the IIIF-viewer in exhibitions, blog posts and other

• Shared IIIF Image Service for partners

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October 18 2016

The Music Lesson, Louis Moritz,1808, Rijksmuseum , Public Domain