IIIF and DSpace

Interested Participants

Following the DSpace Dev meeting on Mar 15, 2017, this brainstorming page was created.  The following people have expressed an interest

• Claire Knowles, University of Edinburgh
• Terrence W Brady, Georgetown University
• Hardy Pottinger, UCLA Library
• Suzanne Chase, Georgetown University
• Unknown User (mornati@cilea.it), 4Science
• Andrea Bollini (4Science), 4Science
• Ben W. Brumfield

Meetings

• Next Meeting - proposed times
  • Jun 23 @ 1500UTC
  • Jun 26 @ 1500 UTC
  • Jun 27 @ 1500UTC
• Past Meetings
  • IIIF/DSpace Meeting April 21, 2017

Brainstorming Questions from Terrence W Brady

• Would a IIIF server pull resources from DSpace, or does the server provide an alternative view of a DSpace item?
• Can a IIIF manifest be used to express relationships between bitstreams?  If so, are all of those bitstreams part of one item?
• I understand that a IIIF server can work with dynamically generated tiles and pre-generated tiles.  I assume that a DSpace integration would need to work with either option.
• We would be interested in providing a book reader view through IIIF.  
  • Currently, we store PDF bitstreams and use a JavaScript library to render the PDF as a book.  These PDFs were generated from TIF files created during digitization.
    • A description of our JavaScript solution: FlexPaper Document Viewer for XMLUI
  • I presume that we would continue to offer a PDF bitstream for download AND we would generate image tiles from the source TIF files.
• We would also be interested in using the IIIF manifest to give context to a set of bitstreams within an item

User Story Suggestions from Ben Brumfield

From the perspective of a IIIF client trying to reuse material on a DSpace repository, here are the minimum features needed to work

IIIF Presentation API

• A IIIF client sees a top-level collection for the DSpace installation listing communities.  Example: DSpace site mapped to IIIF collection document
• An IIIF client sees a collection manifest listing sub collections
• An IIIF client sees a sub-collection collection manifest listing items as IIIF manifest links
• An IIIF client sees a manifest corresponding to an item (TODO real world item with example manifest containing metadata, labels, seeAlso services, and canvases)

IIIF Image API

• A IIIF client sees available image parameters at by calling info.json on the image service for a single page
• A IIIF client can display a single page image at Level 0 Compliance