The IIIF problem space

Images are fundamental information carriers for cultural heritage

今昔物語集(鈴鹿本) - Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive

Martin Luther King III (second from left), Martin Luther King Jr., Yolanda King, Hosea Williams, 1966, Gadsden AL - Stanford Libraries

Zuni Superintendent Annual Reports, 1933 - Indigenous Digital Archive

Cultural heritage organizations have been digitizing and making this content available online for years.

Without standards content becomes siloed

• Each institution or site has their own image viewers
• Siloed data
• Systems often don’t play well together
• Different backends, different UIs
• Often, the data is tied to the platform. What happens to the data when the platform must update or change?

Question: How do these problems extend into the machine learning research communities?