As new digital formats and asset types continue to emerge, institutions managing vast collections of digital resources—such as museums, libraries, archives, and research institutions—face the challenge of standardizing content for consistent access and collaboration across different platforms. Seamless access, organization, and interoperability between various stakeholders are crucial for maximizing the potential of these assets. This is where the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) comes in, and this is the very goal of IIIF: to provide a universal, open standard for sharing and accessing digital images across institutions and platforms.
Orange Logic and IIIF 3.0: Powering Open Standards in Digital Asset Management
At Orange Logic, we understand that interoperability is essential for institutions managing diverse visual collections, from universities and archives to research libraries and cultural institutions. With the need to share, display, and analyze images across platforms and organizations, it’s no longer a mere benefit but an expectation. This is why we’ve integrated IIIF 3.0 compliance into Orange DAM—our Digital Asset Management system—ensuring that your assets are not confined within a single platform but are highly portable and accessible.
At its core, a Digital Asset Management (DAM) system aims to store, protect, and provide digital assets in the right format when needed. IIIF extends this mission by providing a standardized approach to image delivery, aligning perfectly with the purpose of DAM platforms. With Orange Logic's IIIF 3.0 support, your assets can be easily shared, integrated into IIIF-compliant viewers, and used in digital exhibitions across institutions, enabling seamless interoperability.
How IIIF Enhances Digital Asset Management with Orange DAM
The integration of IIIF into Orange DAM provides numerous benefits for organizations managing digital assets:
By embracing IIIF, Orange DAM goes beyond its core function of protecting and preserving digital assets; it ensures that these assets are accessible and usable across platforms and institutions, preserving their value for future generations.
How IIIF Benefits GLAM Institutions: Real-World Applications
For Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM), IIIF offers a powerful solution for managing and sharing digital collections in a way that enhances accessibility, encourages scholarly collaboration, and ensures long-term preservation.
Orange DAM in Action
For major universities with vast digital collections, Orange DAM’s IIIF compliance enables the preservation and sharing of rare manuscripts, maps, scientific archives, and historical photographs. Researchers from various fields can access high-resolution images through IIIF-compatible tools, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and global research partnerships.
“More than just a specification, IIIF compliance allows our university library to leverage twenty years of high-resolution digital collecting to meet evolving scholarly needs. The IIIF ecosystem allows us to share millions of images and audiovisual files with the world across systems barriers,” said Lindsey Memory, Digital Initiatives Department Head at the BYU Library. “It enhances individual access experiences through super zoom, annotation, flexible metadata, and side-by-side viewing with assets at other institutions. It paves the way for reuse, preservation, and increased accessibility. IIIF compliance is the best interoperability tool that librarianship has in our quest to knit the disparate cultural heritage collections into a seamless whole at scale.”
Independent research libraries and cultural institutions rely on Orange DAM to digitize and manage large collections of rare books, photographs, and manuscripts. With IIIF 3.0 support, they can present their collections through public-facing digital portals, promoting interactive exploration while maintaining control over their original files and metadata.
Looking Ahead: Orange Logic and IIIF 4.0
As IIIF continues to evolve, Orange Logic is committed to staying at the forefront of interoperability and ensuring that our DAM platform remains aligned with the highest standards. With IIIF 4.0 on the horizon, our teams are already looking to integrate the new version, keeping Orange DAM users ahead of the curve in global image interoperability.
Conclusion
IIIF is revolutionizing how institutions manage and share digital images, creating new possibilities for collaboration, discovery, and engagement. By integrating IIIF into your DAM system, you ensure seamless access, cross-platform compatibility, and long-term preservation for your digital assets. Whether you are a museum, library, or research institution, leveraging IIIF in your DAM strategy will enhance your organization’s ability to share and engage with your collections globally.
As IIIF adoption grows, aligning your DAM system with this open standard will position your institution at the forefront of digital asset interoperability and accessibility.
What is IIIF?
The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) is a set of standardized APIs that allow digital images and associated metadata to be accessed and shared across institutions in a consistent manner. IIIF’s two core components include:
These APIs enable images to be viewed and analyzed in consistent formats, breaking down barriers between platforms and fostering global collaboration in image-based research.
What is a IIIF Viewer?
A IIIF viewer is a software application that lets users interact with IIIF-compliant images in dynamic, intuitive ways. These viewers utilize the IIIF Image and Presentation APIs to display high-resolution images, supporting advanced features such as deep zooming, panning, and annotations.
Popular IIIF viewers include:
With IIIF-compatible viewers, institutions can enhance accessibility, collaboration, and engagement with their digital collections, ensuring a seamless experience for all users.
IIIF: Seamless Image Access and Interoperability
Ensure that your digital collections are accessible, shareable, and future-proof with IIIF support in Orange DAM. IIIF empowers institutions to structure and share high-resolution images with full metadata integrity, while enabling deep zoom, annotations, and easy integration with external systems. With Orange DAM’s IIIF capabilities, your organization can stay at the forefront of digital asset interoperability.