After a month of public testing and feedback, the IIIF Editors are pleased to announce second draft revisions of the International Image Interoperability Framework Image and Presentation (formerly ‘Metadata’) API specifications.
Since the release of the first drafts. a few significant changes have been made:
Image API
- Added
servicesto info.json [ Changes | Discussion ] - Added mirroring option to rotation syntax [ Changes | Discussion ]
- Added clarification of
defaultquality [ Changes ] and rotation/background [ Changes | Discussion ] - Expanded
info.jsondescriptions [ Changes ] - Clarified and cleanly separated information about support for tiles vs. support for preferred sizes in
info.json[ Changes | Discussion ]
Presentation API
- Added server side rotation option with iiif:ImageApiSelector [ Changes | Discussion ]
- Improved JSON to RDF mapping [ Changes ]
- Minor Clarifications:
- Cannot reference locations outside of a Canvas
- Reduced focus on presenting digitized physical objects
- Explicit definition of physical scale algorithm
As always, we welcome your feedback, questions, and use cases, and encourage you to submit them to the IIIF Discussion Listserv. Drafts will be kept open for comment until the beginning of August, with the goal of final release in September. However, we would appreciate feedback early in order to work on and gain consensus for any necessary changes.
Sincerely,
The IIIF Image and Presentation API Editors Benjamin Albritton Michael Appleby Robert Sanderson Stuart Snydman Jon Stroop Simeon Warner
cc: code4lib@listserv.nd.edu dlf-announce@lists.clir.org iiif-announce@googlegroups.com iiif-discuss@googlegroups.com libdevconx@mailman.stanford.edu lod-lam@googlegroups.com