Introducing IIIF
June 6 2017
Video: Getty
The Getty museum has uploaded 30,000 high res digital images onto it's site for use with 'IIIF', which is pronounced 'triple eye eff', and stands for International Image Interoperability Framework. That's not the sort of name to float a multi-billion dollar IPO, but it is very handy for art lovers because it allows you to compare on a single screen digital images of works from musems around the world. The video above gives you a demonstration, and you can read more about it here.
It's advances like this which convince me we're in a new golden age for connoisseurship. Never before has such close study of paintings, from multiple locations, been possible.
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