1. Ten Thousand Rooms Life of the Buddha
IIIF / Mirador
Ten Thousand Rooms Life of the Buddha
Seong-June Kim, Harry Shyket
Campus Community Technologies, ITS, Yale University
November 9, 2016

2. Ten Thousand Rooms

3. Life of the Buddha

4. Overview Research needs
Hi-res mages of manuscripts, books, murals, etc.
Grouping, sharing, inspection (metadata, zoom, pan, rotate, brightness, etc.)
Annotation on images, annotation on annotations
Transcription, translation, commentary, etc.
Search on images (metadata), annotations
Shared platform / code
Portals hosting multiple projects under a common theme
Authoring system (image upload, metadata, annotation)
Image/data viewer

5. IIIF

6. IIIF
Defines common APIs for sharing images and annotations in the context of Linked Data standards
IIIF Image API 2.1
IIIF Presentation API 2.1
IIIF Search API 1.0
IIIF Authentication API (Beta draft)
Audio / Video API (upcoming)
3D API (upcoming)
Community – Art Institute of Chicago, Bavarian State Library, British Library, British Museum, Cambridge University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, DPLA, Internet Archive, The J. Paul Getty Trust, Harvard University, National Gallery of Art, National Library of Israel, Oxford University, Princeton University Library, Stanford University, University of Tokyo, Vatican Library, Wikipedia, Yale Center for British Art, Yale University, etc.

7. Architecture

8. Client Architecture

9. Screenshot - Ten Thousand Rooms

10. Screenshot – Life of the Buddha

11. Screenshot - Portal

12. Screenshot - Portal

13. Screenshot - Portal

14. Screenshot - Portal

15. Screenshot - Portal

16. Links Ten Thousand Rooms project - http://tenthousandrooms.yale.edu
Life of the Buddha project -
IIIF homepage –
IIIF resources -
Mirador homepage with live demo -
Demo at Yale -