IIIF* is a special framework for digital research. IIIF implies common rules:

• for the researcher’s interface and research process (more details)
• for the digitization of material culture (more details )

Hence, being unified, scenarios of operation with IIIF manifests** contribute to the effectiveness of research, save organizational efforts and facilitate international cooperation of scientific institutions.

With purpose of support and promotion of IIIF technology the IIIF Consortium (IIIF-C) was created. It included many world-class universities, museums, libraries: for example, Harvard and Stanford universities with their libraries, Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Museum of Art in the USA, Oxford and Cambridge Universities in Great Britain, Sorbonne in France - the list is far from complete.

For the researcher's convenience, enthusiasts even created portals with largest collections listed, available for exploration. Here are some useful links:

https://iiif.biblissima.fr/collections/ - Biblissima portal - access to digitized medieval manuscripts, incunabula and early printed books from the 8th to the 18th century

https://fragmentarium.ms/search/ - Fragmentarium portal  - a laboratory of medieval manuscripts

https://vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/en/collection - Flemish Art Collection, a portal of Flemish art (paintings, manifestos in the subsection Linked open data)

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/ The Getty Museum has about 30,000 exhibits digitized in IIIF

https://e-codices.ch/en – “e-codices” virtual library - manuscripts and manuscripts of Switzerland, over 2800 documents

https://archive.org/ - a universal portal***, by the time of writing (2023) contains 39 million books, about 5 million images and 2 million documents.

In 2023, after 8 years of experiments, the global web archiving service archive.org*** announced the official support and implementation of IIIF technology. In the same year, the "Electronic Archive of LNAA" project was launched at the Lviv National Academy of Art.

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• * IIIF - International Image Interoperability Framework
• ** The IIIF manifest is a file in JSON format, in which, similar to html, xml technologies, is encoded the content or the "passport" of the artifact with a list of images belonging to it ( more details )
• *** Even if on the website archive.org manifests are not published, you can create a link to the manifest yourself. For this in https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/manifest.json you should replace xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with an identifier (located in the description of each work at archivelab.org - get more detailed instructions ).

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?Interesting:

In March 2022 an international project Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO)  was launched. In the attribution of artifacts they also use the Dublin Core framework.

 

?List of useful links (sources of IIIF manifests):

https://iiif.io/guides/finding_resources/

https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/assets/university/library/documents/IIF resources.pdf