The Advantages of Interoperable APIs
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The document outlines the advantages of interoperable APIs, particularly the IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework), presented at MoMA in 2016. Key benefits include cost savings, flexibility, integration capabilities, and the encouragement of innovation through community collaboration. It emphasizes the need for consistent standards to enable richer interactions with digital content across various institutions and applications.
![IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs
MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42
Application Programming Interface
“ A set of routines, protocols, and tools for
building software applications. The API
specifies how software components should
interact […]
Think: The rules of the game.
If you’re not following the rules of how to
interact, then you’re not playing the game.
Lewis Chessman ; National Museum of Scotland
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The Advantages of Interoperable APIs
- 1. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 Rob Sanderson rsanderson@getty.edu @azaroth42 @iiif_io #iiifhttp://iiif.io/ The Advantages of Interoperable APIs
- 2. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 A Community that develops APIs, implements them in Software, and exposes interoperable Content
- 3. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 Application Programming Interface “ A set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. The API specifies how software components should interact […] Think: The rules of the game. If you’re not following the rules of how to interact, then you’re not playing the game. Lewis Chessman ; National Museum of Scotland ”
- 4. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 Ms. Ludwig XV 15, fol. 14v ; http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/233698/ Why Play by the Rules? Cost Savings Flexibility Integration
- 5. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 Cost Savings Cheaper, Faster, Easier to obtain pieces than to build them from scratch: Only possible with standards
- 6. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 No Need to Go Alone Community shares costs Less to understand Already designed, documented, implemented, tested
- 7. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 Flexibility: Many Sizes are Possible
- 8. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 Flexibility Always have best-of-breed by seamlessly swapping products Easy to integrate legacy systems Use the same content in different applications Support for many languages, platforms
- 9. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 Innovation is Encouraged Anything not specified is possible, and should feed in to the specs
- 10. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 Integration • Inter-institution content in a single UI • Reunite the Lewis Chessmen! • … and similar • Comparison of objects • Shared analysis tools • Cross institution discovery • Multi-institution virtual exhibits
- 11. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 Rules Updates Haven’t had centuries to work on the APIs yet! • Shared use cases needed • Practical, results based requirements • Responsively managed for changing needs • Responsibly managed to prevent overload • Community based process, with editorial team documenting the decisions
- 12. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 Rules Updates Haven’t had centuries to work on the APIs yet! • Shared use cases needed • Practical, results based requirements • Responsively managed for changing needs • Responsibly managed to prevent overload • Community based process, with editorial team documenting the decisions ------->
- 13. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 The Past
- 14. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 Marginally Better
- 15. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 IIIF Provides Consistency
- 16. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 … and Interoperability
- 17. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 Get the image content, and technical data to enable rich interactions with a single image Just enough descriptive data to enable a remote viewing application for multi-image objects Image API Presentation API Two Core APIs
- 18. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 IIIF Image API http://iiif.io/api/image/2.1/
- 19. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 IIIF Presentation API http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2.1/ • Structure – Collection, Item, Parts, Content • Properties – Descriptive – Rights – Technical – Linking
- 20. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 IIIF Presentation API http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2.1/ • Structure – Collection, Item, Parts, Content • Properties – Descriptive – Rights – Technical – Linking
- 21. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 Shared Canvas: An abstract space used for building a view of the object IIIF Presentation API
- 22. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 Shared Canvas: An abstract space used for building a view of the object Think: Powerpoint Slide IIIF Presentation API
- 23. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 IIIF Presentation API
- 24. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 IIIF Presentation API
- 25. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 IIIF Presentation API
- 26. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 IIIF Presentation API
- 27. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 Image + Presentation = Object Mirador
- 28. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 Image + Presentation = Object
- 29. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 Image + Presentation = Object Image API Presentation API: Descriptive Presentation API: Structure Both: Image / Structure
- 30. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 Image + Presentation = Object Universal Viewer Diva.JS
- 31. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 To support login, and differential access to resources. Search within an object, such as the full text of a book or newspaper Authentication APISearch API Two More APIs All Specifications: http://iiif.io/api/
- 32. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 A Community that develops APIs, …shh … secret third line… implements them in Software, and exposes interoperable Content
- 33. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 A Community that develops APIs, based on Web Standards, implements them in Software, and exposes interoperable Content
- 34. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 Web Standards • Linked Open Data • JSON-LD • Linked Data Platform • Open Annotation • Media Fragments Putting the puzzle together with a little glue to make it stick
- 35. IIIF: Advantages of Interoperable APIs MOMA, New York City, May 10th 2016 // #iiif @azaroth42 Thank You! rsanderson@getty.edu These slides thanks to: @tcramer, @mikeapps, @jpstroop, @bla222, @zimeon, @snydman, and the IIIF community
Editor's Notes
- #3: A What?
- #6: Software won’t be cheap and easy unless there are multiple implementations. Standards avoid lock-in and vendor based monopolies.
- #7: Work together to build out the set of interactions that fulfill our communities use cases – by working together, we share the costs for designing the platforms, documenting them, implementation, maintenance and testing. Room for both open source and licensed vendor products within the community, already see both free and commercial offerings, plus large and small companies providing services.
- #11: Left: NMS, Right: British Museum
- #12: … Sometimes feels more like …
- #13: … Sometimes feels more like …
- #15: Having APIs is a good start, but you have to implement connectors for every different system. It’s stil very time consuming, and the experience is inconsistent.