The International Image Interoperability Framework Consortium is delighted to announce Notch8 has joined the Consortium as an Associate Member. Notch8 builds, hosts, and maintains open-source digital repository and collections platforms for libraries and other cultural heritage institutions. “It’s great to welcome Notch8 to the Consortium,” said Martin Kalfatovic, IIIF-C Managing Director. “Their support of IIIF and implementation work with many of our partners greatly helps expand the implementation of IIIF around the world.”
Notch8 implements IIIF across the repository platforms it builds and hosts, including Hyku, Hyrax, and Blacklight, runs the Samvera community’s serverless-iiif image server in production for its hosted clients, and contributes to it and to other IIIF tooling. Notch8 developers maintain IiifPrint, an open-source engine for Hyrax-based repositories such as Hyku that serves PDFs and other multi-page works through a IIIF viewer with OCR, full-text search, and keyword highlighting, and built a visual structure editor for IIIF Ranges for Yale Library’s digital collections platform.
“Nearly every collection we build or host for a library or archive delivers its images and media through IIIF, whether the platform is Hyku, Hyrax, Blacklight, or something else,” said Nick Steinwachs, President of Notch8. “Our clients depend on the standard and on the viewers and tools around it. We already leverage the IIIF community, so joining the Consortium is a way to support that work directly while we bring what we learn from implementation back to the community.”
“Notch8 are essential partners for our work at Yale Library to further enhance our digital collections platforms, which are rooted in IIIF,” says Jonathan Manton, Director of Digital Collections and Access at Yale Library and IIIF Consortium Executive Committee member. “In line with this, they have also become increasingly involved in supporting the development of the IIIF specification within the community, with notable contributions to key infrastructure such as Universal Viewer. It is therefore fantastic to welcome them to the IIIF community more formally as an Associate Member.”
About the International Image Interoperability Framework
IIIF is a set of open standards for delivering high-quality, attributed digital objects online at scale. It’s also an international community developing and implementing the IIIF APIs. IIIF is backed by a consortium of leading cultural institutions. In addition to supporting the IIIF community financially, these institutions contribute to the APIs, Community Groups, and more.