Open Infrastructure for all
IIIF Cloud Services provides the required digital infrastructure to create, store, organise and publish digital assets for all cultural heritage institutions be they national libraries or archives, universities, museums, small specialised archives or even individuals such as researchers or specialist collectors.
The platform is built on the latest open standards to create an end-to-end approach from digital preservation through to content enrichment and user engagement with your collections. It offers all the necessary interoperable technologies and facilitates best practices to maximise the long term value of digital assets and the flexibility to share approaches, tools and content across the cultural heritage community.
IIIF Cloud Services is run as an open source project, developed and managed by Digirati. It is sustained through Digirati’s subscription service which provides subscribers with support and updates either on a managed hosted service or in your own dedicated environment.
Our ultimate goal is to help the cultural heritage sector to make the most of the opportunities that digital technology affords. We also give talks, webinars and offer training on the standards and tools available. Subscribers are encouraged to collaborate on the future direction of the product roadmap. All of this helps ensure the platform continues to reflect the evolving needs of this sector and emerging open standards.
Comprehensive but not monolithic!
IIIF Cloud Services essentially provides 3 core services (Preservation, IIIF and Engagement) which can work together or be used independently depending on your existing infrastructure and requirements.
Preservation
- OCFL-based Repository
- Storage & preservation APIs
- Simple to integrate
Use our new preservation service or integrate your existing one.
- Supports Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL) specification.
- APIs and User Interface cover deposit creation, management and a wide range of preservation tasks.
- Integrates with digitisation and born digital workflows.
IIIF Services
- IIIF Image & Presentation Services
- Integrated Manifest Editor
- Machine Enrichment Pipeline
Upload assets or ingest from preservation to create and manage IIIF resources.
- Create transcoded web-friendly digital formats and associated IIIF.
- Manually edit IIIF and apply further metadata through machine learning and AI processes.
User Engagement
- Collection Website
- Exhibition Viewer
- Annotation Tools
Create state-of the art viewing and discovery experiences.
- Create IIIF viewing experiences for your websites and digital exhibitions.
- Enrich your digital assets further using our annotation tools for crowdsourcing, research and teaching.
A IIIF-Centric Approach
Core to the platform is the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF). If you are unfamiliar with this standard please see our Introduction to IIIF and the IIIF website.
By utilising IIIF manifests as the ‘unit of distribution’ for digital objects the platform can publish them for viewing, annotating, searching, and utilise the growing ecosystem of IIIF-compliant tools that have rapidly grown in number over the last few years. The same manifest for example could be utilised in a crowdsourcing project, featured in an online exhibition, viewer or web page, used for training a machine learning model or have machine enrichment applied to it such as OCR, handwriting and image recognition, text summarisation and categorisation.
IIIF acts as the bridge that enables the platform to bring these capabilities together thanks to the platform being built from the ground up with this standard at its core. This differentiates it from other systems that have only retrospectively had the standard applied working around legacy barriers to releasing its full potential.
Learn how the Wellcome Library are using IIIF Cloud Services to host over 50 million images.
Read the case studyPowerful capabilities made easy and cost effective
IIIF Cloud Services reduces the overall cost overhead for IIIF production and management whilst offering many useful additional features created in collaboration with our customers (see Features page for more details).
Creating IIIF Images and Manifests can be as easy as drag and drop with capabilities to also integrate automated workflows linking together catalogue and preservation systems. A user-friendly portal enables manual organisation of your IIIF collections as well as the ability to fine tune how they are viewed and showcased.
No matter how large and varied your overall collection or high the potential usage demand, IIIF Cloud Services can scale to deliver IIIF web-friendly derivatives, including images, AV, 3D representations, or born digital files. Continual optimisation based on observed real-world usage cuts hosting costs without impacting performance.
Now with preservation capabilities already built in means automated workflows from ingestion of digital assets into a preservation system through to their dissemination via IIIF web-based discovery can be made without the need for any custom infrastructure set up or integration.
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