[Esip-viz] Fwd: [DIGLIB] Request for Comment: IIIF Image API Proposal

[Kevin Ward]

This is an interesting effort to develop a service-based mechanism for
retrieving metadata and images from a digital image repository,
although more along the lines of humanities-based collections than
geospatial maps.

Kevin

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tom Cramer <tcramer at stanford.edu>
Date: Fri, May 11, 2012 at 7:23 PM
Subject: [DIGLIB] Request for Comment: IIIF Image API Proposal
To: diglib at infoserv.inist.fr
Cc: Tom Cramer <tcramer at stanford.edu>


The International Image Interoperability Framework
(http://lib.stanford.edu/iiif) is an initiative driven by several
major research and national libraries to enable the rich and robust
delivery of digital images through common interfaces, and to spur the
development of open source and commercial software solutions in this
space.

The IIIF Working Group invites comment and feedback on a proposed API
for the the delivery of images via a standard http request. The full
specification can be found at:

http://library.stanford.edu/iiif/image-api


The IIIF Image API specifies a web service that returns an image in
response to a standard http or https request. The URL can specify the
region, size, rotation, quality characteristics and format of the
requested image. A URL can also be constructed to request basic
technical information about the image to support client applications.

The IIIF Image API was conceived of to facilitate systematic reuse of
image resources, and enable their delivery through a diversity of
software applications and environments, regardless of underlying
technology platforms. The API is designed to be adoptable by any image
repository or service provider, and can be used to retrieve static
images in response to a properly constructed URL. We invite you to
read this specification and provide us critical feedback.

Please send feedback to iiif-feedback at googlegroups.com by June 22, 2012.

Once all feedback is reviewed and incorporated, we will release the
specification for adoption.

If you would like to follow future IIIF-related developments, you may
be interested in joining the initiative's announcements email list
https://groups.google.com/d/forum/iiif-announce.

If you would like to participate in IIIF's development, and/or
implement or consume the API for your image repository or image
delivery software, we encourage you to join the IIIF discussion email
list https://groups.google.com/d/forum/iiif-discuss.

With many thanks for your feedback,

The IIIF Working Group