This should have worked, hopefully.
That's great, OK then let me get started.
So yeah, excited to be here.
I'm gonna round this out and talk about
slightly less specific software things,
but more general just kind of
future directions of of what's
happening in the IIIF ecosystem.
My name's Josh hadro.
I'm the managing director of
the IIIF Consortium,
which supports a lot of these efforts,
and we'll come back to that.
Actually, at the very end.
But yeah, what I'm going to talk about
is sort of directionally in terms
of development and community work.
In the AAA F world.
So I wanted to talk about two of the
really interesting groups that are
enhancing the IIIF specification.
So the first one is IIIF and 3D.
So bringing 3D objects and models
into the ecosystem and similarly the
work that the maps group is doing
to just make really awesome use
of the data laden in enabled maps,
I want to briefly talk about work
called the IIIF Cookbook that if
you're not aware of. You should be.
It could be really valuable to
you and colleagues in doing usual
and typical trileaf use cases.
And then I'm going to just round this out.
Just talking about Shipler consortium
and how it supports this work and work
that is coming up in the next few years.
But real quick just to set the stage.
I was just thinking about this recently.
There was discussion on our Slack
channel about the beginnings of
AAA F and it it quite literally
started on a napkin.
A sketch in a restaurant
in California in 2011.
Cuban restaurant and it was basically a
conversation among colleagues about how
institutions could could work together
to share medieval manuscripts in 2011
and in the span of just over 10 years.
That has quite literally blossomed into this.
Amazing global technology infrastructure
and these are all the places that
we know about that are making use
of AAA F and there are dozens if
not hundreds more that we don't
know about that aren't on this map.
So just thinking about that that
10 years is not that long a time,
and especially in the context of library
and museum infrastructure upgrades.
So so just kind of amazing how far to
playoff has come in terms of images.
And now recently adding audio and moving
image materials into that and so that
kind of brings us to the cutting edge.
So 3D is something folks have
been talking about for years.
It's been on a radar for years.
There has been a community group for
a long time gathering use cases.
And doing the work to kind of bring the
community together around 3D use cases.
And I'm really happy to announce if
you haven't heard about it already.
We have a formal group that launched
in January of 2022 to literally
integrate 3D models into the AAA
F ecosystem and specifications,
and I won't go into it here.
There are a lot of thorny questions
that that they will have to solve.
You know it's related to where do
you start measuring, you know,
is the top left corner, or do you measure?
From the inside out and then and
then you know work your way outwards.
These are the things that people
in this group will will solve and
bring into the IIIF specs.
But again, as I mentioned,
the use cases just like all
of the IIIF work.
This is very much rooted in
solving practical applications,
just like what's being discussed
here in this webinar,
so very much rooted in that
design principle of making the
easy cases easy to do and making
the hard cases at least possible.
Do. And specifically,
what they're going to get into is,
you know,
is is what makes sense is bringing
a third physical access into the
IIIF Kansas model, canvas model.
Excuse me,
but of course critically making sure
that that works with existing 2D
media and audio and visual materials
and everything that is already in there.
So making it backward compatible and
also making it work with annotations
and the other things that you
playoff is known for making work.
In in an interoperable way.
So real quick.
This is still the beginning
days of the AAA of 3D work,
but I wanted to show this example
which is called the Infinite Canvas
from a developer named Ed Silverton,
and it is just a proof of showing
how you can bring in 2D IIIF
materials from different institutions
and then integrate that into the same
space with the Google Model Viewer,
which is where that astronaut comes
from and then this is an AV example.
Getting back up to that first step.
So.
Instead of including so,
just showing that AV and 3D and
2D materials can be integrated,
and this isn't the problem solved yet,
but it is a really exciting prototype
of what that group will be working on.
So the other piece I want to talk
about in terms of technical work is
the work that the maps group is doing.
So there's a maps group just like
the 3D group that their goal is
really about unlocking the potential
that is available in digitized maps,
and one of the first things
they did is they published,
which was called the NAV place
extension in October of 2021,
and that really just allows
you to have a AAA.
Object and associate a geographic coordinate
and and that sounds straightforward.
But what that does is that and now
allows all sorts of capabilities in terms
of geotagging photographs and doing
crowdsourced geotagging things like that.
This is an example of that just being
able to have a MAP interface and then
to bring in drauf assets really easily
and cleanly into that map interface.
So dots on a map and then showing
this is just an example.
Glen Robson the IIIF technical
coordinator, took his photo.
In Aberystwyth and showing that that
AAA F manifests showing that image
has that geographic coordinate baked
into it and showing the utility there.
But they're also now the next
steps they're working on.
It's called Georeferencing,
which is just kind of a
next step of exciting,
and that allows you to align a historical
map with underlying map layers of the Earth.
So Google Maps open St Maps and there's
a lot of possibility there as well.
So this demo is from a tool called all
maps by a developer named Bert Span,
who is one of the chairs of the maps group,
and this shows you can take any trileaf.
This example comes from the
National Library of Scotland.
It's a map from 1899 showing.
Just a small section of area just east of
London and and showing you the overlay.
It's very connected point by
point to the underlying map,
but showing you the comparison
between 1899 and the the current
physical layout underlying the map
and so you can have these map tiles.
You can switch to the satellite image
view and just a lot of potential
there for peeling back layers and
maps and overlaying multiple maps
on top of each other to kind of see
how landscape and human development.
Have have evolved over time.
OK, and so I also want
to mention the cookbook,
so if you haven't seen it this we
called cookbook of AAA F Recipes
and essentially it is documentation
of the best practices out there
and it's written by the community.
It's shepherded by Glen Robson and
the IIIF Consortium staff,
but it is very much a product of
the people who make IIIF
work and who are implementing it
out there in the community so.
It starts from the most basic
recipes and builds and scaffolds
into much more complex use cases,
and they're all structured in
the same way and in a way to be
the most useful as possible,
so they always have a descriptive narrative
of the use case and what is being solved.
Implementation notes.
And then there's always a working
example in each one of these cookbook
recipes and in a live working
manifest so that that can be copied
directly and then restructured.
Were slightly tweaked for
local institutional use cases,
and we've seen this really benefit
a lot of folks.
Whether it's in our training exercises
all the way up to institutional
deployment of these exact use cases
and one last piece to mention
related to the cookbook is just
downstream things that it unlocks,
like this viewer support matrix,
so we're now able to show how
the major viewers,
right now it's just covering mirror door.
The universal viewer,
but this can be extended.
This is automatically updated,
so when new recipes get published,
there's kind of this at a glance view of,
of which viewers support which elements
of the IIIF specifications so
that folks can kind of make informed
decisions about which implementation
they might want to make use of.
And in my last minute here I just
kind of want to round this out and
talking about the IIIF consortium,
which you know which our
whole purpose there is,
is to support the work that is
happening in projects like this.
Practical applications and the
Community work developing the
specifications the consortium
was created a few years after
the beginnings of the technology.
So in June 2015 a number of institutions
came together and there are now 63
institutions that quite literally.
Financially,
support the work in the community and
and three explicit staff roles who
are full-time devoted to supporting
things like governance and oversight,
as well as shepherding software
projects and advising on grant
projects so you see elements like
that we have 14 community groups.
I talked about two with the AAA
F and the Maps group.
Sorry with the 3D and the maps group,
but there are twelve others.
I'm doing work every couple
of weeks or every month.
In their meetings we bring together
folks from around the world at
conferences supporting grant projects.
We publish open training materials
and do live trainings for
cohorts roughly once a month,
and we're also able to bring because of
this consortium support able to bring
folks to our conferences,
and to our events throughout the year,
and so just want to return to
this map and say, you know,
the technology in many ways.
Speaks for itself,
but it's also very much.
Because of the support of the consortium
institutions that we were able to really
help this technology spread around the world.
So this is the map I showed earlier,
but the dots here in blue and red
are the consortium members.
The ones that actually are contributing
every year to to spread the adoption and
to make this ecosystem as sustainable
as possible for the long term.
So these are the folks who are making
it possible to grow for another
10 years into 2030 and beyond.
So I'll leave it there with just
this call in case your institution
has found the value in AAA F,
do get in touch.
We'd love to talk about the various
benefits and ways to join the
consortium at different levels,
but I really just want to say thank
you to the folks on this webinar.
Thank you to the consortium members
who made this possible and all the
project work that's gone into this and
continues to grow this ecosystem and
make IIIF useful around the world,
but I'll end up there and
maybe we go into the Q&amp;A.
Thanks everyone.