My zoomviewer for commons is based on IIF (check it out on File:Chicago. jpg for example) Daniel On Feb 9, 2015 4:05 AM, "James Heald" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm increasingly seeing IIIF (International Image Interoperability > Framework) as a standard for serving images from repositories, tileservers, > etc -- especially for maps. > > (eg Klokan offer an IIIF hosting service, and use it as part of the stack > for their Georeferencer; National Library of Wales for their map projects, > etc.) > > Are people aware of IIIF ? > > Does it have advantages ? > > In the medium term, would aiming for an IIIF-compatible interface to the > proposed Wikimaps tileserver, or even main Commons itself, make any sense ? > > > With the Structured Data initiative for Commons now in the works, does it > make sense to make sure that there are properties baked in for everything > that would be needed to support IIIF? Also, to provide for any > functionality that could potentially be exposed through IIIF? > > > I see that there are going to be quite a lot of Wikidata people at the > Europeana Tech meeting in Paris on Thursday and Friday this week; and also > several presentations that will touch on IIIF. > > Is it worth trying to put together a heads-up for Wikidata people coming > to this cold, as a background briefing on IIIF, and why these talks/posters > might be interesting to them? > > > As people with much more map experience than me, can I therefore ask > people on this list what they think of IIIF, and whether it is worth > getting on to our radar? > > Thanks, > > James. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimaps mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimaps >
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