Get Started

Whether you're a developer, researcher, librarian, collection manager, or someone else, your work with digital collections can benefit from IIIF technology and tools.

End user or implementer?

There are two main ways to get started with IIIF.

If you’re a researcher, educator, or in a similar role, you are likely an end user, and you can use IIIF resources already hosted on the Web by someone else–all without having to learn to code.

View end user resources

As an implementer, you can make digital resources available on the Web via IIIF using a variety of products, tools, and resources. Coding skills may or may not be required.

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Resources for end users

Take the first step to exploring the rich world of IIIF-enabled materials.

How IIIF works

Get a simple overview of how IIIF works.

Find IIIF resources

Discover IIIF-enabled materials from institutions around the world.

Use IIIF resources

Learn how to use existing IIIF resources for teaching and research.

Learn to do it yourself

Take your knowledge a step further and use our open training materials to learn hands-on how resources are made available via IIIF.

Find non-English resources

Take a look and see what materials have been created by the IIIF Community in a variety of languages.

Popular IIIF tools

Try making an exhibit with IIIF materials, or setting up a crowd-sourcing project.

Implement IIIF for your materials

Make your digital collections available via IIIF so you and your users can benefit from interoperability.

IIIF APIs

Go straight to the documentation describing the current and draft specifications.

Get recipes

Browse the Cookbook, a community initiative to string together commonly used functions into code “recipes” that can be easily reused.

Guide for IIIF Implementers

This brief guide will lead you through some of the decision points to help get you going with IIIF.

IIIF-compliant vendors

View a list of vendors that allow you to serve your resources via IIIF without building your own ecosystem.

IIIF viewers

There are several popular viewers, each with different capabilities.

IIIF image servers

See the most commonly used IIIF-compliant image servers.

Community tools list

From tools for annotation to tools for building exhibits, see the best of what’s available to you and benefit from the work of others on the IIIF-Awesome list. (External link)

Test an API implementation

Try out the IIIF validators for the Image and Presentation APIs.

More resources

Talks

Learn from other’s experience implementing IIIF by watching conference presentations.

Outreach materials

Anyone can reach out to their community and share information about IIIF. We’ve created some materials to make that easier.

Tools

Check out a variety of tools created by the community.