introduction to the presentation api

Access to the World's Images, Ghent, December 8th 2015Presenter: @azaroth42 | Slides: #iiif @iiif_io http://iiif.io/

Introductionto the

Presentation APIRob Sanderson

@azaroth42#iiif

http://iiif.io/


Images are Fundamental Disseminatorsof Cultural Heritage


More than one image is needed per object


How do I know...

... which images to use?... in which order?

... what they depict?... how they can be reused?

... who should be attributed?... which other resources to display?

... which other objects are related?


Actually, How do I ...... provide a rewarding user experience?


IIIF Presentation API 2.0

http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2.0/

Scope:Provide only the information

necessary for an application topresent the object to the user

Uses the Shared Canvas model


Shared Canvas

Abstract space used for building a view of the object


Shared Canvas

Abstract space used for building a view of the object

Think: Powerpoint Slide


Shared Canvas


Why?


One Canvas, Multiple Images

Archimedes Palimpsest Multi-Spectral Imageshttp://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/


One Image, Multiple Canvases

http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/csg/1394/140ahttp://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/csg/1394/063abcder


Not Just Images

http://purl.stanford.edu/cv176gb0028#image/545/thumb/


Structure


PropertiesDescriptivelabel

Name of the resourcedescription

Textual summarythumbnail

Image summarymetadata

Pairs of Label and Value

Metadata Example: label:"Created", value:"1300"


PropertiesRightslicense

Link to license descriptionattribution

Text required to be displayedlogo

Image required to be displayed

Linkingservice

Additional service endpointseeAlso

Semantic metadata resourcerelated

Resource to display to the user


How?


JSON: Ease of Development

Linked Data:Plays Nice with Others


{ "@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json", "@id":"http://www.example.org/iiif/book1/canvas/p1.json", "@type":"sc:Canvas”, "label":"p. 1”, "height":1000, "width":750, "images": [ {"@type":"oa:Annotation”, // annotation linking image to canvas … }], "otherContent": [ {"@type":"sc:AnnotationList", // reference to list of non-image annotations … }]}

{}s are the new <>s


Summary

Presentation Data not MetadataShared Canvas Model

Linked Open Data in JSON

http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2.0/


Summary

Presentation Data not MetadataShared Canvas Model

Linked Open Data in JSON

Coming Soon:http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2.1/

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