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.