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The tool has been developed in close co-operation with Europeana and uses the same IIIF mapping as Europeana.
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1 Goal of the EDM2IIIF Manifest Creation tool v01
This guide introduces you to the EDM2IIIF Manifest Creation Tool. It was initially created as a successor of the Image Conversion Guide to facilitate the workflow towards making your digital images IIIF compliant.
IIIFstands for International Image Interoperability Framework (spoken Triple-Eye-F). The framework was created to offer the scientific community a way to productively interact with their digital objects (visual or audio/visual) and use them across different platforms. Here you can learn about the benefits of IIIF.
If you are looking for a general introduction to the IIIF framework, please check out the What is IIIF? training resources for aggregators.
When deciding to use the IIIF standard for publishing your images on the internet there are a few obstacles to take, because: the more images you want to convert and equip with the Image API and the Presentation API, the more time you will have to invest to create IIIF compliant images and manifests. (A IIIF manifest is the package that contains all the information related to a particular digital object, including the image itself as well as the metadata.) The manifest creation tool aims to make this process less time-consuming by automating the creation of IIIF manifests for your images.
With this tool you can:
use EDM metadata (of IMAGE type - cultural heritage objects) to automatically create IIIF manifests for images and enrich the EDM metadata with IIIF descriptions
download the IIIF manifests that were created based on your EDM metadata (about manifest creation details see chapter 9)
download the enriched EDM metadata with IIIF descriptions (about enrichment of EDM details see chapter 10)
2 Where to find the EDM2IIIF Manifest Creation tool
The EDM2IIIF Manifest Creation Tool can be accessed through https://openup.ait.co.at/edm2manifest/ .
This tool was developed in the Python programming language, using the Flask framework. To use this tool, the user only needs Internet connection and a browser.