International Image Interoperability Framework

If institutions holding artworks, books, newspapers, manuscripts, maps, scrolls, single sheet collections, and archival materials provide IIIF endpoints for their content, any IIIF-compliant viewer or application can consume and display both the images and their structural and presentation metadata.

The URI can specify the region, size, rotation, quality characteristics and format of the requested image.

A URI can also be constructed to request basic technical information about the image to support client applications.

[7]An institution would publish a Manifest (a JSON-LD document) that describes the structure of each book, artwork, manuscript or other artefact.

"[8] A use case for IIIF would be to allow a user to view a manuscript that has been dismembered in the past, with its leaves now scattered across various collections.