Hi,

Yes IIIF will provide you the structure to present large numbers of 
images, you can see a simpler version of the Mirador viewer at: 
http://showcase.iiif.io/viewer/mirador/ but there are a wide and growing 
selection to choose from.

This one is a nice quick example of ways of presenting books without the 
page turning stuff: 
http://openseadragon.github.io/examples/ui-reference-strip/

The number of images you want to present if not really a problem, I have 
put together pages with thousands of images on them, though that 
particular technology (very old deepzoom and silverlight: 
http://cima.ng-london.org.uk/dz/?which=ng1383), was too slow and did 
struggle with 18K :-).  Or again a very old example of early IIPImage 
use as a general collection viewer, with associated reordering and 
filtering: http://cima.ng-london.org.uk/collection/

You just need to look at software that will allow you to quickly load in 
a simple page but then provide more detailed access to images resource 
as needed. Also I guess it depends if you are presenting an image 
resource or a structured story/publication.

We also did do a set of simple, image resource type, pages designed to 
show how multiple drawings all relate to a single painting. The same 
drawing are presented on multiple pages but are grouped together into 
specific types/classes, which I think Mia suggested in her reply before. 
( 
http://research.ng-london.org.uk/projects/exhibitions/baroccidrawings2013 ) 
Here there is a simple landing page with a single image but then links 
that will take the users to the various different groupings, which can 
be seen as thumbnails 
(http://research.ng-london.org.uk/projects/exhibitions/baroccidrawings2013/relatedtong29) 
or browsed, zoomed and compared as required: ( 
http://research.ng-london.org.uk/projects/exhibitions/baroccidrawings2013/relatedtong29/images/R-0043-01-000002/4/0.3505/0.10837/0/1/tv/101/N-0029-00-000064-WZ/4/0.35065/0.08967/0/1 
)

This idea is related to setting up detailed images resources containing 
all of the images you have to share, that can then be linked to from 
other more structured story/publication type pages. Casual users can 
browse and read the structured story/publication pages, showing example 
images, but more interested viewers can continue on and explore the 
resources.

This approach also has the added plus that you and or other people in 
the future can continue to link to and use the resource pages in new 
related projects, minimising the need for duplication and bringing even 
more users in.

Presenting larger sets of images that people will actually use and 
engage with is often a design issue rather than a technical one.

Joe


On 16/02/15 10:08, Matt Faber wrote:
> Tony is right to recommend the IIIF initiative. It is extensive, widely supported and open source. The viewer that impresses me the most is Mirador which is specifically designed to present images, from different collections, simultaneously in a single viewer window.
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> I have looked at this thread and I don't believe anyone has suggested the IIIF viewer yet. IIIF is designed for exactly your kind of problem, lots of images with related data sets. It isn't solution in itself but a framework that enables the construction.
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> Take a look at the community list, it's got a LOT of backing.
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