Collab with/support the people putting IIIF on IPFS

[flyingzumwalt]

The work to put IIIF on IPFS (ie. go-iiif) could open the gates to all the big cultural institutions (British Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Getty, all the big universities...) storing and serving all their image collections from IPFS. That would be huge for IPFS.

Some of his work:

• https://github.com/thisisaaronland/go-iiif
• https://github.com/atomotic/go-iiif-docker

People

• @edsilv
• @thisisaaronland
• @atomotic

I had a conversation with @edsilv on the Internet Archive Slack: https://gist.github.com/flyingzumwalt/02fbf076fbe778b55c66ae3d6bef8927

@diasdavid this is relevant to your presentation at the Web Archiving Conference. Ed mentioned it in the slack conversation.

[flyingzumwalt]

And check this out - @edsilv is serving 3D models from IPFS

[flyingzumwalt]

Question for IIIF people working with IPFS (@edsilv, @thisisaaronland, @atomotic, @anarchivist, etc): What can we help with? What info should we put out in the world that would be useful for you? Example: If @dignifiedquire gives a lightning talk at the IIIF meeting at the Hague this month, what message would be most important for him to convey?

[edsilv]

cc @aeschylus

[thisisaaronland]

In so far as go-iiif is concerned it's probably just a question of implementing one/both of the source and cache interfaces to speak IPFS:

https://github.com/thisisaaronland/go-iiif/blob/master/source/source.go#L8-L10
https://github.com/thisisaaronland/go-iiif/blob/master/cache/cache.go#L7-L12

[flyingzumwalt]

@thisisaaronland is there any information, encouragement or support we can provide that would encourage this implementation, or make it easier for you to implement it?

[edsilv]

IPFS could be a nice fit for annotation use cases: https://twitter.com/edsilv/status/773413548756242432

[thisisaaronland]

@flyingzumwalt – it's still morning here so I could be missing something but looking at go-ipfs it's not clear where/what I would plug in to a source/cache handler.

[edsilv]

Perhaps something about ipfs-cluster would be good. A roadmap towards enabling libraries to share infrastructure.

[flyingzumwalt]

For people who aren't familiar with IIIF, you here are some reference materials about IIIF

• About IIIF http://iiif.io/about/
• Technical Details about the 4 APIS (Image, Presentation, Search, Authentication): http://iiif.io/technical-details/
• The IIIF Presentation API http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2.1/ -- that's just their API for presentation.
• Another useful reference from @anarchivist's workshop at Hydra Connect:
  Google Doc on IIIF and Data Modeling
  
• A sample IIIF viewer by @richardrodgers at MIT that lets you enter the URL for an image, view the image and see the generated IIIF manifest

[edsilv]

@flyingzumwalt @thisisaaronland I have a demo of IIIF 'level 0' image tiles being loaded from IPFS here:

http://universalviewer.io/examples/?manifest=https%3A%2F%2Fipfs.io%2Fipfs%2FQmYomyCpT1vKNovYvTjAStYq31JoaH8xdivjmWcDj5mpM1

I used a python script to generate these: https://gist.github.com/edsilv/97759a93cb7c5f0fedb8178fee5e1dd3

Could it also be done with go-iiif's iiif-tile-seed?

[edsilv]

You would certainly want to talk about the legal and security aspects of running an IPFS node. A key question would be "can people put nasty things on my servers".

[edsilv]

Also worth mentioning? https://github.com/ipfs/archives

[daviddias]

Lot's of development happened in this issue #240, inviting everyone to join the discussion there :)

[flyingzumwalt]

Yeah. Let's close this issue. I think the goal was achieved. Some great demos, example code and new libraries came out of this collaboration.