IIIF Image and Presentation API Second Drafts Released

After a month of public testing and feedback, the IIIF Editors are 
pleased to announce second draft revisions of the International Image 
Interoperability Framework Image and Presentation (formerly 'Metadata') 
API specifications.

  * IIIF Image API 2.0.0-draft2 <http://iiif.io/api/image/2.0/>
  * IIIF Presentation API 2.0.0-draft2
    <http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2.0/>

Since the release of the first drafts. a few significant changes have 
been made:


      Image API

  * Added |services| to info.json [ Changes
    <https://github.com/IIIF/iiif.io/commit/801e9e1628f34c77001d2b151df8efb88e1c688a>
    | Discussion
    <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/iiif-discuss/4rp3OvK0jtI/Gow0pF45bMIJ>
    ]
  * Added mirroring option to rotation syntax [ Changes
    <https://github.com/IIIF/iiif.io/commit/93869af7e4fee290c044392e0858d1805cf26e80>
    | Discussion
    <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/iiif-discuss/J7u9cyKZKU4> ]
  * Added clarification of |default| quality [ Changes
    <https://github.com/IIIF/iiif.io/commit/dd54d7dfaf4bd2b5ade8b1ab16b8ada8687eb7bb>
    ] and rotation/background [ Changes
    <https://github.com/IIIF/iiif.io/commit/b2d6bfe59bd3fdbe3147c88333d2c922f4caf1d6>
    | Discussion
    <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/iiif-discuss/AnXBvw_gVI0> ]
  * Expanded |info.json| descriptions [ Changes
    <https://github.com/IIIF/iiif.io/commit/044da46a2eea17374f2604036bd4c066788cf95b>
    ]
  * Clarified and cleanly separated information about support for tiles
    vs. support for preferred sizes in |info.json| [ Changes
    <https://github.com/IIIF/iiif.io/commit/15c8445403d8ed72f300f8a3da6de2ce05cc8475>
    | Discussion
    <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/iiif-discuss/YOAAcALqoAE> ]


      Presentation API

  * Added server side rotation option with iiif:ImageApiSelector [
    Changes
    <https://github.com/IIIF/iiif.io/commit/f94fda233731b4140a922ee673f09fd2f04dc053>
    | Discussion
    <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/iiif-discuss/k2Lu6INn5KM> ]
  * Improved JSON to RDF mapping [ Changes
    <https://github.com/IIIF/iiif.io/commit/522f1664f244d3a6f35b05db4d66a7833b9b6bd2>
    ]
  * Minor Clarifications:
      o Cannot reference locations outside of a Canvas
      o Reduced focus on presenting digitized physical objects
      o Explicit definition of physical scale algorithm

The Editors would like to thank all of those who responded to the first 
draft with suggestions for improvement.  As always, we welcome your 
feedback, questions, and use cases, and encourage you to submit them to 
the IIIF Discussion Listserv <mailto:iiif-discuss_at_googlegroups.com>. 
Drafts will be kept open for comment until the beginning of August, with 
the goal of final release in September. However, we would appreciate 
feedback early in order to work on and gain consensus for any necessary 
changes.

Sincerely,

The IIIF Image and Presentation API Editors
Benjamin Albritton
Michael Appleby
Robert Sanderson
Stuart Snydman
Jon Stroop
Simeon Warner

-- 
Michael Appleby
Software Engineering Manager
Yale Digital Collections Center
e: michael.appleby_at_yale.edu