IIIF at one end, OCFL at the other, Fedora in the middle.

The emergence of two standards – IIIF and OCFL (International Image Interoperability Framework and Oxford Common File Layout) – means that a complete digital preservation and delivery infrastructure can take a standards-based and open-source approach all the way through. We will show how the University of Leeds and Digirati have used existing software and newly developed components to deliver a system, as part of the University of Leeds' Digital Library Infrastructure Project (DLIP), that conforms to digital preservation best practices and is open to ad hoc application development and re-use. One key aspect of this is the use of Fedora as a gateway to OCFL and the ability for components other than Fedora to make use of this standards-based structure. The presentation will describe the project, problems it aims to address, the approach adopted and ask questions about the role of METS in between the two outer standards-based boundaries of IIIF and OCFL.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2025-06-16
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15758502
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Digital and Traditional Archives Management
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IIIF at one end, OCFL at the other, Fedora in the middle.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Digital and Traditional Archives Management
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IIIF at one end, OCFL at the other, Fedora in the middle.

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Abstract

The emergence of two standards – IIIF and OCFL (International Image Interoperability Framework and Oxford Common File Layout) – means that a complete digital preservation and delivery infrastructure can take a standards-based and open-source approach all the way through. We will show how the University of Leeds and Digirati have used existing software and newly developed components to deliver a system, as part of the University of Leeds' Digital Library Infrastructure Project (DLIP), that conforms to digital preservation best practices and is open to ad hoc application development and re-use. One key aspect of this is the use of Fedora as a gateway to OCFL and the ability for components other than Fedora to make use of this standards-based structure. The presentation will describe the project, problems it aims to address, the approach adopted and ask questions about the role of METS in between the two outer standards-based boundaries of IIIF and OCFL.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
University of Leeds (GB), Digirad (United States) (US)
Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Openalex Percentile: Top 48%
Digital and Traditional Archives Management
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