IIIF Annual Conference, The Netherlands, June 1-4, 2026. In collaboration with the Dutch Digital Heritage Network. Photos of Amsterdam, The Hague, and Leiden.
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/
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/
We’re looking for a Research Data Engineer (m/f/x) (3,5 years). If you have a #DigitalHumanities profile with experience in #TEI encoding, #OCR / #HTR, and #IIIF (or any of those and are willing to learn the rest), get in touch! The full time position can be split, so if (for whatever reason) […]
This info just came over the (highly recommended) #geohumanities mailing list: The working papers from the very productive #OpenMapsMeeting hosted in 2024 by @TUDelftLibrary at the National Archives in The Hague is online. Documenting innovative work with #historical #maps using #IIIF Hopefully […]
🖼️ #IIIF Fridays: Discover IMMARKUS, an annotation tool for working smarter with digital image collections (Cc: @aboutgeo.bsky.social). In this online session, @hildedw.bsky.social will demonstrate how IMMARKUS can support your workflow!
📅 30 March (14:00-16:00)
📝 Register: meemoo.be/nl/vormingen...
Sharing my suite of free & open-source tools for:
• real-time collaborative image annotation – liiive.now
• simple publishing of small-/mid image collections as #IIIF – github.com/rsimon/tiny-...
(If it's more than one tool it does count as a suite, right? :)
#DigitalHumanities
Decorative images with a screenshot of tiny.iiif in the background, and image server choices (as text labels) in the foreground: IIPImage, Cantaloupe.
Small update to #tinyIIIF, my no-nonsense #IIIF server! You can now choose your image server during setup:
• IIPImage
• Cantaloupe
Running small- to mid-sized collections? Teaching with IIIF materials? Building IIIF-enabled tools? Check out tiny.iiif!
github.com/rsimon/tiny-...
#DigitalFriday
🗞️ The IIIF monthly newsletter, with more new #IIIF tools than ever before!
mailchi.mp/iiif/feb-26
2026 IIIF Annual Conference, The Netherlands, June 1-4, 2026. in collaboration with the dutch digital heritage network
🔊 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
The liiive annotation interface: image control bar on the top left (sharing, zoom, image rotation); drawing tool bar on the top right (move, rectangle, triangle, circle, trash, undo/redo), navigation bar at the bottom. Colored cursors and annotation shapes above a medieval manuscript page.
It's done! 🚀 The first formal open source release of liiive is out — my real-time collaborative #IIIF annotation environment.
As of today: fully self-hostable.
A big thank you to the University of Graz Department of Digital Humanities and the DHInfra.at initiative who's support made this possible.
The Waldseemüller map in liiive (a IIIF annotation tool).
Yay! The first image served from my new #tinyIIIF test instance.
I'm running it on a 2 CPU/4GB RAM VM. Seems to be the absolute minimum & performance is pretty slow.
If anyone has advice on which specs I'd need to get more #IIIF speed out of Cantaloupe – let me know!
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...
Hint to those who want to use Vatican Lib resources in other viewers like #Mirador, #Theseus, or #IIIF tools like immarkus.xmarkus.org, liiive.now: I always found the IIIF link a bit well-hidden on the Vatican site. It's the tiny "i" icon top-left (next to "Read more"), then ↓, "IIIF manifest URI".
This shows what's possible when we combine AI and IIIF in digital humanities—going beyond the usual chatbots and viewers.
#ai #iiif #digitalhumanities #manuscripts #hebrew
A screenshot of the tiny-iiif admin GUI.
New blog post: From Folder to Manifest in a Minute. An introduction into tiny-iiif, my new project that turns a folder of image files into a fully functional, online #IIIF manifest in a minute (or less!)
liiive.now/blog/2026-02...
My latest attempt showing how I got Gemini to create an accurate bounding box for a Hebrew verse in the Leningrad Codex to be used in a #IIIF annotation, including the prompt I used to direct the model in the best way.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/using-...
liiive splash page image
Screenshot of the annotation interface, with toolbars (top-left, top-right, bottom-left), live user cursors and a medieval manuscript image with three annotations.
I can finally share the happy news 🚀 liiive.now — my tool for real-time collaborative annotation of #IIIF images — is going open source!
First code is available here: github.com/rsimon/liiive
Self-hosted setup coming by end of February.
#OpenSource #DigitalHumanities
Google's latest Agentic Visions for #Gemini is amazing!!!
I had it create a bounding box for a #iiif annotation for Gen 1:3 on the Leningrad Codex supplying some context about dimensions and thinking, and the results are better than anything yet
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!
2026 IIIF Annual Conference, The Netherlands June 1-5, 2026 In collaboration with the dutch digital heritage network
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...
tiny.iiif table view
tiny.iiif grid view
tiny.iiif fullscreen preview
New side project is taking shape... #iiif
2026 IIIF Annual Conference, The Netherlands June 1-5, 2026 In collaboration with the dutch digital heritage network Amsterdam, The Hague, Leiden
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...
Join us online: l1nq.com/mD99H
Heritage Malta and @unesco.org Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage, will present the results of a survey we conducted through @heritaliseeu.bsky.social in collaboration with: #IIIF, #EU #eArchiving Initiative & #MNEMOSYNE about #3D #digitisation of #cultural #heritage
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...
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.
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
Q to the hivemind: When using #Cantaloupe as a #IIIF image server, what are possible options for user-friendly management of image collections + manifests?
Looking for basic stuff like end-user-friendly bulk upload, basic metadata editing (for presentation manifests) and sorting into collections.
A IIIF annotation highlighting the start of Genesis 1:1 in the Leningrad Codex
A quick POC of using AI (Gemini 3 Pro) to create #iiif annotations to find verses in the Leningrad Codex.
Born out of my incompetence at reading manuscripts!
#hebrew #digitalhumanities
