On Feb 9, 2015 4:05 AM, "James Heald" <j.heald@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

Hi,

I'm increasingly seeing IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) as a standard for serving images from repositories, tileservers, etc -- especially for maps.

(eg Klokan offer an IIIF hosting service, and use it as part of the stack for their Georeferencer;  National Library of Wales for their map projects, etc.)

Are people aware of IIIF ?

Does it have advantages ?

In the medium term, would aiming for an IIIF-compatible interface to the proposed Wikimaps tileserver, or even main Commons itself, make any sense ?


With the Structured Data initiative for Commons now in the works, does it make sense to make sure that there are properties baked in for everything that would be needed to support IIIF?  Also, to provide for any functionality that could potentially be exposed through IIIF?


I see that there are going to be quite a lot of Wikidata people at the Europeana Tech meeting in Paris on Thursday and Friday this week; and also several presentations that will touch on IIIF.

Is it worth trying to put together a heads-up for Wikidata people coming to this cold, as a background briefing on IIIF, and why these talks/posters might be interesting to them?


As people with much more map experience than me, can I therefore ask people on this list what they think of IIIF, and whether it is worth getting on to our radar?

Thanks,

    James.




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