Break down silos with open APIs
Many of the images and audio/visual resources that are fundamental to research exist in silos, with access restricted to locally-built applications. IIIF gives you and your audience freedom to work across barriers.
![Wellcome Collection screenshot](/assets/uploads/wellcome_zebrafish.png)
The Wellcome Collection uses IIIF to make medical and scientific materials available via the custom-built Wellcome Viewer, and to offer multiple image download sizes to users.
View demos![SAT Taishōzō Image DB screenshot](/assets/uploads/SAT%20Taish%C5%8Dz%C5%8D%20Image%20DB.png)
The SAT Daizokyo Database Project includes individual mandalas with over 400 IIIF annotations, using Mirador.
View demos![DDMAL screenshot](/assets/uploads/ddmal_section.gif)
McGill University's Distributed Digital Music Archives & Libraries Lab uses the Presentation API to integrate audio and moving images.
View demosSimplify and enhance your work
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Great for researchers
Examine, compare, annotate, and share. IIIF enables easy use across repositories, with tools to aid research and presentation.
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Efficient for developers
Publish once, reuse often. IIIF serves high-quality digital objects to your own site and others in many formats, without vendor lock-in.
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Practical for leaders
Share your collections as widely as possible. IIIF is a cost-effective way to serve billions of digital objects with open-source, community-driven ethics.
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The six IIIF APIs fit together to deliver endless possibilities.
![Image API icon](/assets/images/icons/image@2x.png)
Image API
Retrieves images from anywhere in the world and allows the user to select an area of the image and to resize, rotate, and edit the quality.
![Presentation API icon](/assets/images/icons/location-info@2x.png)
Presentation API
Packages each image with its metadata so users know the origin, title of the image, and even what page of a book the image was from.
![Auth Flow API icon](/assets/images/icons/auth-group@2x.png)
Authorization Flow API
Control and restrict access by creating a link to a user interface for logging in and services that provide credentials.
![Search API icon](/assets/images/icons/search-group@2x.png)
Content Search API
Perform search for text within or annotations related to digital objects.
![Change Discovery API icon](/assets/images/icons/shape@2x.png)
Change Discovery API
Harvest any changes published by organizations that deliver digital objects.
![Content State API icon](/assets/images/icons/link-group@2x.png)
Content State API
Generate a very specific link to a particular view of an object, like a specific area on a particular page rotated at a certain angle.
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IIIF community groups tackle a range of topics, from implementing IIIF for specific communities to crafting new technical specifications.
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IIIF is funded by a 69-member global consortium, and leveraged by aggregators, research institutions, national libraries, archives, museums, software companies, and digital agencies around the world. Consortium members include:
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We are pleased to announce that Martin R. Kalfatovic will be taking the role of Director for the IIIF Consortium effective July 8, 2024.
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