IIIF and Allmaps Partnership

Last year the IIIF Consortium and Allmaps launched a partnership to work together to create a IIIF maps commons, to help share development costs and also build an international collection of maps available as IIIF. This is a prototype for other potential IIIF commons initiatives that the consortium is exploring.

Partners are IIIF consortium members and pay an additional top-up to Allmaps. For this partner maps are bulk loaded to Allmaps, they are listed on editor.allmaps.org page and they will get tracking and management access to their collection on Allmaps. The funding from the partnership pays for the maintenance of Allmaps and also has a development budget for new features. This development budget is coordinated by an Allmaps Advisory Board containing Allmaps innovators and IIIF Staff.

https://allmaps.org/iiif-partnership/

More detailed benefits for each level are below which come from the IIIF partnership page above:

Allmaps Supporters

• Add your collection of maps to Allmaps, where it can be georeferenced by staff and patrons in Allmaps Editor. Suggestions from your collection will appear on the landing page of Allmaps Editor.
• Keep track of your maps that have been georeferenced with Allmaps. Through an API and Allmaps Latest you can keep track of the crowd-sourced data in Allmaps, and export it to your own systems at any time.
• Offer a custom flow to your patrons. When visiting Allmaps through your institutional portal, the interface will include institutional branding and a backlink to your collections.
• “Open in Allmaps” button. A customizable component you can add to your collection interface to indicate if a map has been georeferenced, and to open the resource in different parts of Allmaps.
• Training and support. Allmaps offers one in-person training as part of the IIIF Annual Conference and one remote training as part of the Online Meeting. Support is offered through the #maps and #allmaps channels in the IIIF Slack.
• Access future benefits made possible by Allmaps Innovators such as Allmaps Explore for finding maps across institutions and Allmaps Curator for managing crowdsourcing projects.

Allmaps Innovators

• All Allmaps Supporter benefits
• Support the development of new apps and features within the Allmaps ecosystem that will open up to other members and the world.
• Have a seat on the Allmaps Advisory Board and determine the annual roadmap in consultation with the Allmaps team.
• Obtain beta access and offer feedback to new apps and features.
• Contribute to establishing a governance structure for Allmaps.
• Listed as a partner on the Allmaps homepage with logo.