University Library Joins IIIF Consortium

The University of Leeds Library is now a member of the International Image Operability Framework Consortium (IIIF-C), which unites a growing number of GLAM organisations and associated industries in the pursuit of a shared standards and technologies that enable interoperability between, and uniform and rich access to, digital image, audio and video resources in repositories around the world. IIIF (triple-eye-f) is a standard and community that enables sharing, collaborating, and engaging with digital cultural collections. It is a fundamental component of the Digital Library Infrastructure Project, part of the University's Digital Transformation Programme.

The Library joins a global, multi-sector community that is developing, cultivating, and documenting shared technologies that provide a world-class user experience in viewing, comparing, manipulating, and annotating digitized visual and audio materials. The Digital Library Infrastructure Project will enable the University Libraries' digitised cultural collection to be IIIF compliant, allowing us all to make use of IIIF tools with our own collections. The Libraries, supported by DCCH, are planning on running IIIF training in early 2024 on how you can use IIIF in teaching and research.