ICYMI: The May #IIIF Newsletter is out, including: 📝 Registration for the 2026 Annual Conference 🛠️ New IIIF tools 🎥 FromthePage Community Call recording Read the full issue: mailchi.mp/iiif/apr-26

A few weeks left to register for the 2026 #IIIF Annual Conference, BUT time is still of the essence! 🔹 Last day to purchase a conference t-shirt is May 1. 🔹 ONE spot let for the guided tour of the Maurithuis 🔹 Workshops are down to single-digit registration slots www.conftool.org/iiif2026/

The #IIIF Consortium is delighted to welcome University of Minnesota Libraries as a new member. Read more about UMN's collections and initiatives on the IIIF website: iiif.io/news/2026/04...

Just wrapped up the @cni-org.bsky.social 2026 Spring Meeting & I thought back to the 2011 Fall Meeting where Tom Cramer presented “The @iiif.bsky.social Framework: Laying the Foundation for Common Services, Integrated Resources and a Marketplace of Tools for Scholars Worldwide” (1/3) bit.ly/484dT9f

Great to be at the @cni-org.bsky.social Spring 2026 Membership Meeting in Salt Lake City representing @iiif.bsky.social. Great to catch up with longtime colleagues and meet so many new people!

It's not too late to sign up for Glycerine Showcase: Annotation Sets and Templates! On 15 April (N America) and 21 April (Europe/Asia), the team from Glycerine will off a showcase Glycerine’s Annotation Set and Annotation Template features. Read more andregister: www.eventbrite.com/o/iiif-conso...

12½ years ago, I made a map of all the buildings in the Netherlands. Unexpectedly, people loved it! Ever since, I have been wanting to make an updated version of the map. Newer data, higher resolution, more interactive! I never got around to it, until last week: bertspaan.nl/buildings

A reminder to join us tomorrow for our April #IIIF Community Call with Sara Brumfield and @benwbrum.bsky.social

If you are a product manager, technical lead, or an employee of a company that offer DAM systems, the #IIIF Consortium is conducting a survey to better understand how Digital Asset Management System (#DAMS) providers support the IIIF APIs. forms.gle/eukK28nb1FSN...

Registration for the 2026 #IIIF Annual Conference and Showcase closes on May 14, 2026. Space for some workshops is filling up fast, so claim your spot by registering: www.conftool.org/iiif2026

Upcoming #IIIF Community Call: Using IIIF, Gemini 3, and AI Drafts for Transcription in FromThePage. On April 8, Sara & Ben Brumfield will show how FromThePage is sending IIIF images to LLMs; showing AI draft transcripts, provenance & reasoning in the UI; and more. Zoom: iiif.io/community

I'm fascinated by digitized historical directories, and I'm a big #IIIF booster, so naturally I spent some recent evenings building the tool I wanted to see in the world: a "Data Explorer" view of 12 brewery directory guides from 1896 to 1918: hadro.github.io/brewery-guid...

Upcoming #IIIF Community Call: Using IIIF, Gemini 3, and AI Drafts for Transcription in FromThePage. On April 8, Sara & Ben Brumfield will show how FromThePage is sending IIIF images to LLMs; showing AI draft transcripts, provenance & reasoning in the UI; and more. Zoom: iiif.io/community

🗞️ ICYMI: the March #IIIF Newsletter is out, including: 📜 The preliminary program for the 2026 Annual Conference 🕯️ A viewer for cozy reading 🇫🇮 IIIF in Finland Read the full issue: mailchi.mp/iiif/mar-26

The preliminary program for the 2026 #IIIF Annual Conference is now available. See the program for our Showcase, conference days, workshops, and Birds of a Feather sessions here: conference2026.iiif.io/program/

The new @hf.co storage Buckets open up the Hub beyond models and datasets. Example: IIIF image hosting. With Buckets, just upload static tiles and any IIIF viewer zooms straight from CDN!

For Seachtain na Gaeilge, our newly launched DRI Labs project team decided to highlight the rich visual history of #Ballyshannon in the collections, with links to friendly exhibit-making tools from @europeana.bsky.social and @iiif.bsky.social. Read more: dri.ie/news/baile-s...

Join @iiif.bsky.social, AI4LAM, and @netpreserve.bsky.social for a free virtual Showcase highlighting the global activities and collaborations of our organizations! March 12 (09:00 ET / 14:00 CET) netpreserve.org/event/ai4lam...

Sponsorship for the 2026 #IIIF Annual Conference is open, but spots are filling up! Learn more the opportunities to connect with over 200 professionals from around the world: conference2026.iiif.io/sponsors/

I'll be talking about @iiif.bsky.social at the CERN/AILIS Library Science Talk on 3 March (11:00 CET). No registration needed. indico.cern.ch/event/1634109/

🗞️ The IIIF monthly newsletter, with more new #IIIF tools than ever before! mailchi.mp/iiif/feb-26

For #IIIF / digital collectjons folk, 'Requirements for core Annotation properties' need review/input 'to define the requirements for relationships like body, target, motivation, source... these four are very inconsistent in the way they're used in Annotation documents' github.com/IIIF/api/iss...

"@iiif.bsky.social as an Enabling Tool in Data Curation" poster at the 2026 @digitalcuration.bsky.social conference / thanks to all who stopped by to learn more about IIIF! #IDCC26 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

🔊 Registration is now open for the 2026 #IIIF Annual Conference! Travel information, schedule, locations, and a link to register are on the conference website: conference2026.iiif.io

I just published v0.1.0 of tiny.iiif 🚀 - the first official release of my new IIIF server! • Publish images as IIIF instantly • Organize images with simple drag+drop • Image Service + Presentation manifests + user-friendly GUI all in one package Available now! github.com/rsimon/tiny-...

Starting in 5 minutes!

Join us tomorrow for a demo of IIIF Illustration Detector! Zoom link: iiif.io/community

Join us Feburary 11 for a demo of @danielvanstrien.bsky.social's IIIF Illustration Detector. Zoom on the IIIF Community Calendar: iiif.io/community

Need to publish images as #IIIF — but have only 30 SECONDS to do it? tiny.iiif to the rescue! 🫨 • Drag & drop images → instant IIIF Image Service • Create a folder → drag images in → instant presentation manifest! Work in progress, but already a lot of fun. Ping me if you want to know more!

Quick Q to the #IIIF community: if I want to set up #Cantaloupe, quick & painless via Docker, what's the recommended image? I've been using `uclalibrary/cantaloupe`. It's working great – I just want to make sure there are no other images I should be aware of that might be more recommended.

The Consortium is delighted to offer two travel scholarship to attend the 2026 #IIIF Annual Conference in the Netherlands. 🚅 🛬 🧳 For more information and how to apply visit: iiif.io/event/2025/l...

TODAY is the day! The Call for Proposals for the 2026 #IIIF Annual Conference closes on Friday, January 23. ⏱️ Get your proposal in under the wire: iiif.io/event/2026/n...

The #IIIF Consortium is delighted to welcome the University of Bern and Vienna University Library as Associate members. Read more about our newest members and their initiatives on the IIIF website: iiif.io/news/2026/01...

Deadline in two days!

If you're interested to hear how the #IIIF Consortium developed its new membership model, we invite you to join us tomorrow for a short presentation and community Q&A session. Zoom: iiif.io/community

The Call for Proposals for the 2026 #IIIF Annual Conference CLOSES on Jan. 23. Read the full CfP and find a link to submit: iiif.io/event/2026/n...

The Call for Proposals for the 2026 #IIIF Annual Conference CLOSES on Jan. 23. Read the full CfP and find a link to submit: iiif.io/event/2026/n...

Exhibit v5 is here! 🚀 New features: 🔹 Simpler hosting (Firebase App Hosting replacing Vercel) 🔹 New Landing Pages & Quiz UI 🔹 Moveable Pinpoints + 3D Panning 🔹 Source Available License (Get repo access to modify code!) exhibit.so/store

The Call for Sponsors for the 2026 #IIIF Annual Conference is now open. Join a diverse group of GLAM professionals from around the world in the Netherlands this June. More info: iiif.io/event/2026/n...

2026 will usher in changes to the #IIIF Consortium membership model. If you're interested in learning about the process for creating the new structure or have questions, we invite you to join us for a special community call on Wednesday, January 21 at 12pm ET Zoom info: www.iiif.io/community.

Updated globe with all 500 members of #IIIF @iiif.bsky.social at ChronoLink mprove.de/chrono3d?ll=... Happy time traveling to all of you in 2026!

My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources. Please share and give feedback! xeirographa.com

The final #IIIF newsletter of the year is out! Open for: 🔹The 2026 Conference CfP 🔹IIIF & Allmaps partnership 🔹New IIIF viewer updates mailchi.mp/iiif/nov-dec...

Paste any IIIF manifest → model classifies every page locally → see where illustrations appear. Part of small-models-for-glam: small, efficient models for cultural heritage work. Not everything needs GPT-4! Try it: huggingface.co/spaces/small-models-for-glam/iiif-illustration-detector

Registration is now open for the 2026 #IIIF Online Meeting and the program is available! As always, the online meeting is free and open to all, but advance registration is required and workshop space is limited. Registration: iiifonline2026.eventbrite.com Program: iiif.io/event/2026/o...

Registration is now open for the 2026 #IIIF Online Meeting and the program is available! As always, the online meeting is free and open to all, but advance registration is required and workshop space is limited. Registration: iiifonline2026.eventbrite.com Program: iiif.io/event/2026/o...

🔊The Call for Proposals for the 2026 #IIIF Annual Conference is now open! Read the full CfP and find a link to submit: iiif.io/event/2026/n...

If you're curious about the new #IIIF and #Allmaps partnership, please join us this Wednesday, December 10 at 12pm ET for a demo of @latest.allmaps.org, a look at the roadmap for new IIIF member benefits, and Q&A. Zoom information is on the IIIF Community Calendar: iiif.io/community

My lightning talk at #FF2025, “Refactoring the @iiif.bsky.social Artificial Intelligence Community“ zenodo.org/records/1783...

for those who attended the IIIF workshop yesterday by @iiif.bsky.social this might be a useful tool to try github.com/kingsdigital... #ff2025 - developed by @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social