Review: International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF); Gallica; e-codices: Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland

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Book Review| August 01 2018 Review: International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF); Gallica; e-codices: Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF). Directed by the IIIF Consortium of more than forty member institutions worldwide; Glen Robson, Technical Coordinator. URL: http://iiif.io/Gallica. Laurence Engel, Director. URL: http://gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/?mode=desktope-codices: Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland. Christoph Flüeler, Project Director. URL: http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en Sarah Ann Long Sarah Ann Long SARAH ANN LONG is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Michigan State University. She is a former president of the International Medieval Society, Paris, and served as an editor for Volume 1 of Antiphonaria: A Catalogue of Notated Office Manuscripts Preserved in Flanders (c. 1100–c. 1800) (Brepols, 2015). She is finishing a book entitled Salva nos, Domine: Music and Confraternity Devotions in Late Medieval France. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2018) 71 (2): 561–572. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2018.71.2.561 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Sarah Ann Long; Review: International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF); Gallica; e-codices: Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 August 2018; 71 (2): 561–572. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2018.71.2.561 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search In June 2015 a consortium of forty research institutions in Europe and the Americas came together for a large-scale digital humanities initiative to make their precious collections of books, archival materials, and images more widely available to the public. This group of libraries, museums, and universities created the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF). IIIF is an application programming interface that makes it easier for Artstor, Europeana, and other large aggregators to access and deliver images that are digitized by members of the consortium, such as the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), the British Library, and many others.1 The IIIF initiative is a step toward revolutionizing the way scholars and the general public gain access to manuscripts, early prints, composers’ autographs, works of art, and other examples of artistic production. This review discusses the specifics of IIIF, and how it is used in two national collections that are part of... You do not currently have access to this content.