Der IIIF kümmert sich um die Interoperabilität von Bilddaten und damit die bessere Sichtbarkeit und Zugänglichkeit von Bildern im Web. Der Initiative gehören große Bildarchive und Bibliotheken an.
IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) has the following goals:
To give scholars an unprecedented level of uniform and rich access to image-based resources hosted around the world.
To define a set of common application programming interfaces that support interoperability between image repositories.
To develop, cultivate and document shared technologies, such as image servers and web clients, that provide a world-class user experience in viewing, comparing, manipulating and annotating images.
In puncto Imageviewer hat die Initiative einige auf ihrer Website: