Registry of Profiles

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Abstract

This is one of a number of IIIF registries. It lists a set of profile URIs that have been identified as useful for implementations, across the APIs. They may be defined by the IIIF community, or outside of it.

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1. Introduction

This is one of a number of IIIF registries. It lists a set of profile URIs that have been identified as useful for implementations, across the APIs. They may be defined by the IIIF community, or outside of it.

1.1. Disclaimer

The inclusion of entries in this document that are outside of the IIIF domain must not be interpreted as endorsement, support, or approval from the editors, the IIIF community or any individual. This annex is provided as a registry to advertise the existence of these extensions and attempt to ensure some consistency between implementations for common but not universal requirements.

1.2. Inclusion Process

The process for having a new entry added to this registry is described here.

2. Requirements for Inclusion

3. Registry

This table summarizes the known profiles available, for use with the Presentation API.

Profile Description
http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 The URI for identifying MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema) version 3 metadata records.
https://linked.art/ns/terms The URI for identifying records that follow the Linked Art model and API version 1.
http://www.lido-schema.org/ The URI for identifying records that follow the LIDO XML schema.
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q115365241 The URI for identifying the canonical JSON for information in Wikidata.
http://www.tdwg.org/standards/450 The URI for identifying records that follow the Darwin Core schema.
http://www.loc.gov/standards/alto The URI for identifying ALTO which is used for encoding OCR text.
http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml The URI for identifying MarcXML metadata records.
http://purl.org/dc/terms/ The URI for identifying records that follow the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Metadata Terms (NB: these are different from the legacy Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1, refered to as http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/).
http://www.europeana.eu/schemas/edm/ The URI for identifying EDM (Europeana Data Model) metadata records.

Appendices

A. Acknowledgements

Thanks to the members of the IIIF for their continuous engagement, innovative ideas and feedback.

B. Change Log

Date Description
2018-XX-YY New Version 3 Registries
2023-XX-YY Added MarcXML as a profile
2022-11-15 Addition of EDM (Europeana Data Model)