Registry of Services

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Editors:

• Michael Appleby, Yale University

• Tom Crane, Digirati

• Robert Sanderson, J. Paul Getty Trust

• Jon Stroop, Princeton University Library

• Simeon Warner, Cornell University

Copyright © 2012-2024 Editors and contributors. Published by the IIIF Consortium under the CC-BY license, see disclaimer.

Abstract

This is one of a number of IIIF registries. It lists a set of services 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 services 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 services available and which APIs they may be used in. The ‘’ icon means that the service is not to be used in the API. The ‘’ icon means that the service can be used in the API.

Service	Image API	Presentation API
Image Information

3.1 Image Information

Added: 2014-05-20

The Image Information service allows the Presentation API, and potentially other APIs, to reference content to be displayed via the Image API. The JSON-LD content to be referenced or embedded is the Image Information document, also known as info.json. The service must have the @context, @id and profile keys, pointing to the context document, service base URI and compliance level profile respectively.

{
  "service": {
    "@context" : "http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json",
    "@id" : "http://www.example.org/image-service/abcd1234",
    "profile": "http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"
  }
}

The service may have additional information embedded from the Image Information document to avoid the need to retrieve and parse it separately. In this case, the profile may also point to the profile of what functionality is supported, as described in the Image API.

{
  "service": {
    "@context" : "http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json",
    "@id" : "http://www.example.org/image-service/abcd1234",
    "protocol": "http://iiif.io/api/image",
    "width" : 6000,
    "height" : 4000,
    "sizes" : [
      {"width" : 150, "height" : 100},
      {"width" : 600, "height" : 400},
      {"width" : 3000, "height": 2000}
    ],
    "tiles": [
      {"width" : 512, "scaleFactors" : [1,2,4,8,16]}
    ],
    "profile" : [
      "http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json",
      {
        "formats" : [ "gif", "pdf" ],
        "qualities" : [ "color", "gray" ],
        "supports" : [
            "canonicalLinkHeader", "rotationArbitrary", "http://example.com/feature"
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

With the logo property added to the Image Information description in version 2.1 of the Image API, it is possible and reasonable for one info.json response to embed another using this pattern. In this case, the second service is related to the icon that should be displayed when a client renders the image described by the main response.

{
  "@context" : "http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json",
  "@id" : "http://www.example.org/image-service/baseImage",
  "protocol" : "http://iiif.io/api/image",

  "attribution" : "Provided by Example Organization",
  "logo" : {
    "@id": "http://example.org/image-service/logo/full/full/0/default.png",
    "service": {
      "@id": "http://example.org/image-service/logo",
      "protocol": "http://iiif.io/api/image",
      "profile": "http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"
    }
  }
}

Appendices

A. Acknowledgements

The production of this document was generously supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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

B. Change Log