IIIF Working Groups

Please register for the following IIIF events associated with the Ghent symposium by selecting individual tickets.  Please do not register for multiple events on the same day, such as Thursday and Friday.

Technical Workshop (Monday 7 Dec 1:30-4:30)

This pre-event workshop will allow attendees who want to implement IIIF locally (in either their repository or application) to work with technical experts and existing implementers. The structure will be an informal “hack-a-thon”, with a chance to ask specific questions on the APIs, their use and their implementation. 

IIIF Community Roundtable (Wednesday 9 Dec 9:00-5:00)

This event will start with a community round-table of ongoing efforts and progress in the IIIF space, including both demos and reports. The community will also assess existing priorities and progress towards them, and affirm future work for the coming 12 months. In the afternoon discuss the proposed technical changes for the specifications towards ratification of the next versions of the APIs. 

Mirador Contributors Group (Thursday 10 Dec 9:00-5:00)

Mirador is one of the most fully featured IIIF clients, with support for both the Image and Presentation APIs and a comprehensive set of features. This technical meeting is to discuss the current priorities towards a roadmap of efforts, possible improvements to the codebase, and processes for community ownership and development of the product. 

Newspaper Interest Group (Thursday 10 Dec 9:00-5:00)

The Newspaper Interest Group will is being convened to discuss and provide support for adoption of the IIIF APIs within the vibrant digital and digitized newspaper domain. All around the world, newspaper content is being digitized and made available, and we see IIIF as a technical cornerstone to ensure broad adoption, access and reuse of the content. The meeting will set goals and deliverables to align European and North American efforts in this space. 

Universal Viewer and Manifesto (Friday 10 Dec 9:00-1:00)

The Universal Viewer (UV) is a user-friendly viewer in use at a number of national and research libraries. It features beta implementations of the IIIF Auth and Search specifications as well as support for audio, video and other formats. It is now built using Manifesto, a Presentation API client library that can be used as the engine in other viewers and servers. This meeting is for both contributors and interested newcomers.

Unconference (Thursday 11 Dec 9:00-5:00, Friday 11 Dec 9:00-1:00)

Additional IIIF work on implementations, specifications, use cases and requirements will take place outside of the working group structure on both Thursday and Friday.