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IIIF

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Providers using this tag (19)

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Developing 8 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 11 Limited public surface area

APIs with this tag (26)

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Developing 11 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Stanford Libraries IIIF APIIIIF Presentation (v2.1 stable, v3 alpha) and Image v2 APIs over the Stanford Digital Repository. Manifests...50.3Cambridge Digital Library IIIF APIsThe Cambridge University Library digital collections platform exposes IIIF Presentation API 2.1 manifests a...50.0UMedia IIIF image delivery (OCLC CONTENTdm tenant)UMedia's digital objects are delivered over the IIIF Image API 2.1 from the Libraries' OCLC CONTENTdm insta...48.0UCLA Library IIIF Image ServiceUCLA Library self-hosts a Cantaloupe 5.0.5 image server exposing both IIIF Image API 2.x and 3.0 endpoints ...47.9UBC Library Open Collections IIIF Presentation APIIIIF Presentation manifests for Open Collections items, served from UBC Library's own host. Verified live 2...47.6NSW LRS Historical Land Records Viewer IIIF Image APIA live Cantaloupe Image Server exposing the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Image API...46.9University of Tokyo Iiif APIIIIF Presentation and Image API endpoints.45.3Yale University IIIF APIIIIF Presentation 3.0 manifests for digitized objects43.8University of Chicago Library IIIF Image APIIIIF Image API Level 2 service for the University of Chicago Library, running Loris. The service root self-...41.8University of Chicago Library IIIF Presentation APIIIIF Presentation API 3.0 manifests for the University of Chicago Library's digital collections, addressed ...41.8Harvard Art Museums APIREST/JSON API to the Harvard Art Museums' collections across 25 documented resources (object, person, exhib...40.2
Thin 14 Limited public surface area
Figgy Digital Repository — OAI-PMH and IIIFFiggy is Princeton University Library's Valkyrie-based digital repository backend (pulibrary/figgy). It ser...39.1Princeton University Art Museum APIOpen, REST-style API providing developer access to data about the Princeton University Art Museum and its c...39.1UMD Libraries IIIF ServicesIIIF Image and Presentation services operated by UMD Libraries — a Cantaloupe 5.0.5 image server and Papaya...38.7University of Oxford IIIF APIIIIF Image, Presentation and Change Discovery endpoints.36.9FDAT Repository REST APIKeyless, read-only JSON REST API of FDAT, the university's institutional research data repository, operated...35.7IIIF Image APIIIIF Image API 2.0-compliant service for delivering image binaries for artworks. Combine artwork.image_id w...33.2Keio University IIIF APIIIIF Presentation and Image API surfaces for Keio's digitised collections.32.6LSE Digital Library (Quartex — IIIF / OAI-PMH)The LSE Digital Library publishes digitised and born-digital material from LSE Library collections. The hos...32.1L'Héritage des Ponts et Chaussées — IIIF Presentation API (tenant)ENPC's heritage digital library, holding more than 15,000 digitised documents from the school's collections...30.3Waseda IIIF Image APIThe image-tile half of the same Waseda-operated IIIF deployment. info.json declares protocol http://iiif.io...29.5Waseda IIIF Presentation API (Cultural Resources)Waseda University operates its own IIIF server for the Kotenseki Sogo Database (古典籍総合データベース) of classical J...29.5TCD Digital Collections (IIIF Presentation)The Library of Trinity College Dublin's Hyrax/Samvera digital asset repository, on Trinity's own host and b...29.2University Library IIIF Image ServerA IIIF server operated by the University Library of Bern at iiif.ub.unibe.ch, serving images for its digiti...27.1PHAIDRA at Padua (deployment)PHAIDRA is the University of Padua Library System's digital-collections repository, holding the institution...26.7
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented

Companies reaching this through an API (10)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “IIIF” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Harvard University NSW Land Registry Services Princeton University University of Bern University of Cambridge University of Maryland College Park University of Minnesota University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Padua University of Tübingen

Score breakdown

Frequency
46.3
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.5
spread across providers
Quality lift
46.3
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Digital Collections 16 co-occurrences Cultural Heritage 10 co-occurrences Research Repository 22 co-occurrences Russell Group 6 co-occurrences Shibboleth 23 co-occurrences Campus Life 6 co-occurrences DataCite 13 co-occurrences

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