Practical applications of IIIF as a building block towards a digital National Collection

by Joseph Padfield (Co-I), Charlotte Bolland (Co-I), Neil FitzGerald (Co-I)

". The ‘Practical Applications of IIIF as a Building Block Towards a
National Collection’ project has highlighted and demonstrated the opportunities and benefits the
International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) open standard can offer to institutions,
researchers, scholars, and students to open up these silos and to describe, present and re-use digital
resources at scale. The project has explored how IIIF can virtually connect digitised collections from
different organisations and how these digital resources can be used as the foundations for further
research. It has experimented with presenting IIIF resources for utilisation by diverse audiences and
considered ways in which IIIF can be used to lower barriers to uptake as well as create new
opportunities for digital re-interpretation and presentation. Efficient methods of using IIIF to build
collaborative online resources have also been explored to begin to demonstrate the potential for
dynamic, cross collection searching. As the organisation, presentation and re-use of digital resources
would be a fundamental element of a digital National Collection, the project sought to highlight how
the consistent advocacy for, use and ongoing support of this type of established and mature set of
interoperable open standards is the only realistic way of connecting, at a national level, hundreds if
not thousands of collections and sources of digital resources together in an economically feasible
and sustainable manner. "

144 pages, Unknown Binding

Published July 1, 2022