IIIF APIs Documentation
The Europeana APIs offer for IIIF covers the Presentation API (versions 2.1 & 3), the Content Search API (version 1) and make use of the IIIF Image API when made available by content providers. Additionally, Europeana’s IIIF offer also includes support for fulltext (such as transcriptions, translations of transcriptions, captions and subtitles) via the IIIF Fulltext API using an EDM extension for fulltext. These APIs follow the specifications defined by the IIIF consortium.
You don’t need an API key for this API!
Introduction
The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) is a range of standards that were initially designed to offer a standardized and scallable way to describe how digital objects composed of one or more images can be displayed to an end-user. This offers the flexibility to developers and users to respectively develop and use different IIIF compatible viewers according to their needs and preferences. Since its first release, it has grown to cover other types of media such as sound and video, and soon also 3D.
IIIF datasets in Europeana: A Scholar’s delight
The recently launched Europeana Media player brings Europeana into a new era of International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) compatible, interoperable and unified playout of audiovisual heritage material online.
IIIF & Europeana Working Group
This dedicated IIIF & Europeana Working Group follows the first of the proposals from the Task Force 'Preparing Europeana for IIIF involvement.