Practical applications of IIIF as a building block towards a digital National Collection

图像比文本更重要，它可以让（数字）观众了解文化遗产，说明故事，展示收藏品，探索旧手稿和文件，或照亮我们历史的丰富多彩部分。呈现或共享小组图像在技术上是简单的，但是随着图像的质量、大小和数量的增加，实现和交付迅速变得更加复杂。例如，在移动的网络上下载千兆字节大小的图像可能是有问题的并且成本高昂。当用户将来自不同机构或国家的联合收割机图像组合在一起时，复杂性会增加。当要求记忆机构为合作项目提供其图像的高分辨率副本时，也存在许多知识产权和技术问题。国际图像互操作性框架（IIIF）将继续发展，以帮助解决这些问题和更多的问题。它提供了一个标准框架，使各机构能够使用免费软件，以一致、可跟踪的方式提供自己的内容。来自多个机构的IIIF资源可以虚拟组合（无需相互发送图像）以提供共享演示，允许用户在不同设备上探索巨大的可缩放图像，而无需复制或下载整个图像。然而，尽管描述得很好，但建立和重新使用IIIF资源仍然很复杂，特别是对于较小的机构或个人研究人员。此外，还需要更好地了解如何部署综合信息框架，以便将各机构的虚拟馆藏联合收割机结合起来，以及如何支持更多样化的受众。该研究项目将评估整个行业目前使用IIIF系统的情况，并通过一系列有针对性的研讨会和调查收集进一步发展的要求和雄心。这些信息将用于编写一份景观报告，并为设计和开发一小部分可运作的综合投资框架技术试点示范提供信息。答：与不同机构合作并展示数据集和研究成果，重点关注在一个单独的正在进行的研究项目中创建的资源，该项目涉及都铎王朝/蚕豆肖像。B：研究如何将IIIF资源用作补充信息，以支持和丰富在线出版物或展览。丙：展示个人非技术研究人员如何根据现有资源创建新的综合IIIF演示文稿（克服其采用的重大障碍）。这项工作将涉及对不同潜在使用群体的具体用户进行分析，以便将用户需求和反馈意见纳入最终报告。该项目还将探讨该部门需要哪些新的IIIF工具/服务，以及如何创建、使用和维护这些工具/服务。一个重要的前提是让技术人员和非技术人员都参与进来，开发用例并定义工具。研讨会1：展示和讨论当前的最佳实践。探索IIIF资源目前如何用于研究和公众参与（以及由谁），确定可用的资源/工具，以及人们将来如何使用这些资源/工具。2：讨论共享IIIF服务的潜力。探索IIIF相关的服务是可用的，或者可能是有用的/需要的机构或研究人员新IIIF通过IIIF呈现公共/私人图像，考虑共享的图像库，改进的图像服务器，培训和知识要求等。一个实用的讲习班和讨论会，旨在创建汇总、使用和展示IIIF资源的工作实例，并开发用例，展示最终用户如何利用这些工具。举办共享研讨会，汇集拟议的PID和关联数据项目及其他项目的工作，就如何将这些项目的成果用于开发和维护国家数字馆藏提出明确的建议

Even more than text, images are critical in engaging (digital) audiences with cultural heritage, to illustrate stories, present collections, explore old manuscripts and documents, or illuminate colourful parts of our history. Presenting or sharing small groups of images is technologically straightforward, but as the quality, size and quantity of images increase, implementation and delivery rapidly becomes more complicated. For example, it can be problematic and costly to download gigabyte-sized images on a mobile network. The complexity increases as users combine images from different institutions or countries. There are also many IPR and technological concerns when memory institutions are asked to provide high resolution copies of their images for collaborative projects. The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) continues to be developed to help solve these and many more issues. It provides a standard framework for institutions to present their own content in a consistent, trackable manner, using freely available software. IIIF resources from multiple institutions can be virtually combined (without sending images to each other) to provide shared presentations, allowing users to explore huge zoomable images on different devices without needing to copy or download whole images. However, though well described, setting up and re-using IIIF resources can still be complex, particularly for smaller institutions or individual researchers. In addition, better understanding of how to deploy IIIF to combine virtual collections across institutions and how to support more diverse audiences is needed. This research project will assess current use of IIIF systems across the sector and gather requirements and ambitions for further development via a series of targeted workshops and surveys. These will be used to produce a landscape report and to inform the design and development of a small selection of working IIIF technology pilot demonstrations. A: Working with and presenting datasets and research outputs from different institutions, focusing on resources created within a separate ongoing research project on Tudor/Jacobean portraits. B: Examining how IIIF resources can be used as supplementary information to support and enrich online publications or exhibitions. C: Demonstrating how individual non-technical researchers can create new aggregated IIIF presentations based on existing resources (overcoming a significant barrier to its adoption). This work will involve specific user analysis, with different potential use communities, in order to feed user needs and feedback into the resulting report. The project will also explore what new IIIF tools/services are needed in the sector and how they might be created, used and maintained. An important premise is to involve both tech and non tech people, to develop use cases as well as defining tools. Workshops1: Showcase and discuss current best practice. Explore how IIIF resources are currently used for research and public engagement (and by whom), identify available resources/tools, and how people would like to use these in the future. 2: Discuss the potential of shared IIIF services. Explore what IIIF related services are available or could be useful/required for institutions or researchers new to IIIF to present public/private images via IIIF, considering shared image repositories, improved image servers, training & knowledge requirements etc. 3: Developing practical IIIF solutions. A practical workshop and discussion designed to create working examples of aggregating, using and presenting IIIF resources, and develop use cases showing how end users can exploit these tools.4: Towards a National Collection: Developing a road map for the future. A shared workshop bringing together work from the proposed PID and Linked data projects and others, to develop a clear proposal of how the outcomes of these might be used in developing and maintaining a digital National Collection