awesome-iiif

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This page will show you the Github repositories that self-identify as IIIF-related, with the most recently updated projects listed first

A Zenodo community for gathering articles and data related to IIIF

People, projects and institutions that self-identify as being active within the IIIF Community on Mastodon, a federated social network

Retrieves images from anywhere in the world and allows the user to select an area of the image and to resize, rotate, and edit the quality

Packages each image with its metadata so users know the origin, title of the image, and even what page of a book the image was from, likely in conjunction with the Image API

Perform search for text within or annotations related to digital objects

Control and restrict access by creating a link to a user interface for logging in and services that provide credentials

Harvest any changes published by organizations that deliver digital objects

Generate a very specific link to a particular view of an object, like a specific area on a particular page rotated at a certain angle

This IIIF Presentation 3 API extension defines a new property, navPlace, which is defined by earthbound geographic coordinates in the form of GeoJSON-LD

This extension leverages Web Annotations to provide a pattern for georeferencing IIIF Presentation 3 API Canvases as well as Images served through the IIIF Image API, containing (historical) maps

This extension recommends a pattern for indicating the level of text granularity for an annotation related to optical character recognition (OCR) software, manual transcription, and existing digitized text

A collection of IIIF "recipes," different reusable code snippets to help create IIIF manifests for common use cases

IIIF workshop materials and videos given by the IIIF-C and updated at each occurrence

A "how-to" resource with screenshots for finding IIIF Manifest URLs from various members of the IIIF community

A service to validate a IIIF Image API resource against the specification

A service to validate a IIIF Presentation API resource against the specification

aws-batch-iiif-generator

An automated pipeline to generate IIIF tiles and manifests and use AWS S3 as an IIIF image server

Image server written in Java fully conformant to all IIIF Image API versions through 3.0

Image server written in Java

FSI Server is a popular commercial solution for serving high resolution images in multiple formats. It accompanies the Flash-based FSI Viewer for zoom and pan

go-iiif

IIIF server written in go (fork of )

Hymir IIIF Server

IIIF server written in Java supporting IIIF Image and Presentation API

Express.js middleware to run an Image API 3.0 compatible IIIF server, written in typescript

iiif_s3

Ruby library for generating a static IIIF level 0 Image and Presentation API server on Amazon S3

High performance image server

Loris

Written in Python

Commercial platform for hosting IIIF collections with Presentation API support

RAIS

100% open source tile server for JP2 images written in Go

riiif

Written in Ruby as a Rails engine

IIIF Image server as an AWS Serverless Application, supporting Image API versions 2.1 and 3.0

SIPI

IIIFv3 image server written in C++

TremendousIIIF

A .NET C# IIIF Image API 2.1 server

ContentDM Image translator

Makes ContentDM images available through IIIF. Python

Djatoka Ruby gem

Convert IIIF URLs into the URLs that Djatoka requires

djiiif

Package designed to make integrating the IIIF Image API easier by extending Django's ImageField

Flask-IIIF

Flask extension to support IIIF in Python/Flask applications. See and

Shimmy

Ruby gem designed to help you build shims for the IIIF Presentation API

– A set of tools for curating, georeferencing and exploring IIIF maps

A viewer for scanned images from various archives and repositories. (Presentation API v2 only)

React library to build IIIF Presentation 3 level viewing experiences including support for annotations

– A viewer for georeferenced IIIF maps. It is also a fast viewer for browsing IIIF books

– Presentation API Manifest and Collection viewer handling Image, Sound, and Video canvases for React.js

IIIF image viewer optimized for speed and flexibility

Glycerine Viewer

An elegant and contemporary Vue 3 Viewer with a comprehensive annotation feature set

A general IIIF viewer with added focus on curation and ordering of cropped IIIF images

Internet Archive BookReader

A viewer developed by the Internet Archive, specially suited for viewing books

High-performance client with WebAssembly/WebGL engine and additional storytelling elements. Also offering full server IIIF support

Multi-up workspace. See also

Tify

Slim and fast IIIF document viewer built with Vue.js

Rich embeddable interface

IIIF tile support

Scalebar Plugin

OpenSeadragon plugin for physical scale overlay

Curtain Viewer

Viewer based on OpenSeadragon using the curtain-sync plugin for comparing naturally aligned image variants

A React wrapper component around OpenSeadragon which offers selectable, extended UI functionality

IIIFViewer

IIIF WebGL / Canvas / DOM mobile-ready fast viewer powered by OpenLayers V3

Imaging Helper Plugin

OpenSeadragon plugin with utility functions

IIPMooViewer is an open source, Javascript and HTML5 image streaming and zooming client. IIPMooViewer is IIIF-compatible and works with IIPServer or other IIIF compatible servers

Leaflet-IIIF

Lightweight, extensible IIIF image viewer

High-performance, feature-packed Javascript library especially built for maps. It supports the IIIF Image API 2.1

iiif

Python library providing a reference implementation of the Image API. Also includes a test server and static tile generator

iiif-apis

Java IIIF API libraries

iiif_url

Ruby library for creating and parsing IIIF Image API URLs

iiif-tiler

Java library for generating static IIIF tiles (compliant with the V2.1 and 3.0 of the IIIF Image API)

image-iiif

PHP 8 package for implementing IIIF Image API 3

iOSTiledViewer

IIIF image API and Zoomify viewer for iOS, written in Swift

A fast image processing library with low memory needs. Includes an operation that can build image pyramids compatible with IIIF Image API

Node node-iiif

a full-featured image processor supporting the IIIF Image API versions 2.1 and 3.0

piffle

Python library for generating and parsing IIIF Image API URLs

allows you to paste a IIIF Manifest URL into the box below and it will show you all of the Canvases which are present in that manifest

A demo app by the Victoria & Albert useful for the alignment of overlayed images, served by the IIIF Image API, and providing an interactive viewer for overlayed images, presented fluidly, using responsive image tags

dezoomify-rs

A command-line tiled image downloader. Support IIIF, Deepzoom and others zoomable image formats

Website using and Jekyll that allow users to enter the URL of a IIIF image and get the URL for the cropped section of the image

iiif-dl

Command-line tile downloader/assembler for IIIF endpoints/manifests. Download full-resolution image sequences from any IIIF server

a small tool to inspect metadata about IIIF images and demonstrate how their image file URLs may be constructed

IIIF-imageManipulation

UCD's tool to crop images and manipulate via IIIF attributes; integrate with Mirador via plugin

Example of using Leaflet to provide IIIF cropping

IIIF Manifest Generator

PHP library for generating IIIF manifests

iiif-apis

Java IIIF API libraries

iiif-prezi

Presentation 2 Python library providing a reference implementation

iiif-prezi3

Presentation 3 Python library

iiif-tree-component

IIIF tree menu sortable by date with multi-select capability

jiiify-presentation

A Java IIIF Presentation library

Manifesto

IIIF Presentation API client and server utility library

Manifold

Wraps Manifesto to provide viewer state and related utilities

IIIF front-end React toolkit including a multimedia viewer, image slider, and HTML5 primitives for manifest properties

O'Sullivan

Ruby API for creating IIIF manifests

pyIIIFpres

A Python module built for easing the construction of JSON manifests compliant with IIIF API 3.0 in a production environment, similarly to iiif-prezi for earlier versions of the protocol

Swiiift

IIIF presentation API library for Swift

npm module for creating and manipulating IIIF manifests

tiny-iiif-manifest-authoring-tool

A node.js web app that provides a one-stop solution for publishing IIIF resources, offering various functionalities from image uploading to IIIF manifest authoring

Documentation on IIIF-related libraries and components, from an open community of designers and developers interested in creating composable and interoperable interfaces for consuming and creating online content

Chronicling America

For newspapers digitized in the National Digital Newspaper Program

Shimmy

Ruby gem designed to help you build shims for the IIIF Presentation API, and has samples for NYPL, Flickr, and the US National Archives

biiif

Organise your files according to a simple naming convention to generate IIIF v3 manifests

demetsiiify

Web service for creating IIIF manifests from METS/MODS documents

Input a IIIF Manifest URL to and the desired image size to download a zip of all that Manifest's images

Input a IIIF manifest link to see basic object and image metadata in a human-friendly format

iiif-producer

A CLI tool that generates IIIF Presentation 2.1 Manifests from METS/MODS (produced by Kitodo)

Leiden's Islandora IIIF Manifest Generator

A module to generate IIIF Manifest for Islandora

Manifest Editor

Web application for importing, viewing, updating, and exporting manifests. See a

Brif

A boilerplate tool based on Docker and FastAPI, designed to streamline the development and deployment of IIIF compliant platforms. Powering up muzai.io. See live

pdiiif

a JavaScript library to create PDFs from IIIF manifests, completely client-side (with server-based fallback for unsupported browsers)

tropiiify

Tropy plugin that exports images, metadata and annotations as a (level0) IIIF collection

A service to validate a IIIF Presentation API resource against the specification

A service to validate a IIIF Image API resource against the specification

IIIF Presentation API 3 Validator in JavaScript [N.B. being replaced by as part of the ]

IIIF Presentation API 2.0+ validation library

a web application for viewing, editing and sharing narratives and pathways on IIIF images

toolkit which allows for the guided viewing of segments of a manifest, in addition to the for guided comparison of multiple manifests

Canopy IIIF

A IIIF Collection sourced site generator in Next.js for digital collections, humanities, and exhibitions

Set of tools, including a Viewer, Curation Manager, Curation Board, and more from the Center for Open Data in the Humanities (all tool descriptions in Japanese, some also available in English)

A free IIIF storytelling tool that allows for guided navigation of one or more IIIF Manifests using annotations

High-performance client with WebAssembly/WebGL engine and additional storytelling elements. Also offering full server IIIF support

a suite of tools and services that enable anyone to easily create engaging web pages with rich visualizations, including interactive images, videos, maps, and more

Vue-based presentation tool, embeddable into any page as a Web Component, which supports slide-like narration over one or multiple IIIF sources, as well as static images and tiled map sources. ( )

This has several extensions that make use of IIIF to produce customised presentations of a bespoke selection of IIIF manifests (e.g. in Mirador 3, Curtain Viewer and Panel Truck)

a self-service approach for creating exhibit websites to highlight digital collections; based on

– a free online storytelling platform for creating guided tours of a single IIIF manifest using annotations

a minimal computing project for producing digital exhibitions focused on longevity, low costs, and flexibility

Blacklight IIIF Search

Plugin that provides IIIF Content Search functionality for -based Rails applications

Ocracoke

Rails application to create, index, and search text from page images and provide results in IIIF Content Search API format

Whiiif

Python/Flask/Solr application to index IIIF manifests alongside ALTO representations and provide a IIIF Content Search API endpoint

Manifests with accompanying images and AV resources that demonstrate various IIIF authentication patterns

iiif-auth-client

Client implementation of the IIIF Authorization Flow specification

iiif-auth-server

A demo server implementation of all aspects of the IIIF Authorization Flow specification

iiif-image-auth

(IIIF Auth 1.0) A simple server implementation based on Docker and Flask

Blog post by Russell McOrmond considering the challenges of restricting access to Canadiana's resources

IIIF workshop materials and videos given by the IIIF-C and updated at each occurrence

A short guide to download digitized books from Internet Archive and rehost on your own infrastructure using IIIF with full-text search [from raffaele messuti / ]

Getting a IIIF image into Mirador with drag-and-drop and email

Experiments with IIIF and Gallica

A guided tour of end user applications of IIIF to Gallica materials, by Jean-Philippe Moreux (BnF)

Benjamin Albritton; includes an explanation of the use case for medieval scholars using Chaucer as an example and short section on how to make a page comparison demo in Mirador

Uses IIIF as an example to explain APIs

A step-by-step walkthrough of how to implement IIIF

Introduction to IIIF (in French)

IIIF Workshop for DHNord2020

French langauge workshop with three exercises from a workshop entitled "Adopt and use IIIF standards for your digital image corpora," created by Régis Robineau (technical coordinator of Biblissima) and Johann Holland (TGIR Huma-Num)

Learn about the structure of a IIIF URL through manipulating the parameters and seeing the results in a live demo

Demonstration of how a canvas can have a choice of images and a viewer can toggle between them

Uses IIIF as an example to explain APIs

A thorough introduction to the IIIF specifications and tools for using them, by Tom Crane at Digirati

Covers Image API, Presentation API, and annotations

Julien A. Raemy & René Schneider (2019)

Presentation introducing IIIF for new audiences as "the API for humans" - also contains videos from other IIIF presentations

From various IIIF events

Slides and recording from a DARIAH-DE workshop in 2018 by Robert Casties

High level overview of the Image API parameters

How IIIF can be used on small projects with limited infrastructure, presented at

YouTube playlist from the Zurich Central Library (Zentralbibliothek Zürich)

Rob Sanderson

Part of a workshop on TEI and neighboring standards including IIIF

May 2015

May 2016

Prototype application that allows you to search across IIIF-compliant manuscripts and rare books dated before 1800

Discovery system for IIIF resources in Japan

a Chrome extension that automatically detects IIIF resources in web pages and offers users a convenient way to collect and reuse them

Europeana provides a filter to identify all IIIF-enabled resources in its collections

iiif-universe

Repository that includes links to known IIIF presentation manifest collections

Open-source IIIF-compliant research and discovery platform. This is the IIIF-compliant version of the platform driving [Digital Bodleian] ( )

iNQUIRE source

Github repository for iNQUIRE

Portal that provides access to digital objects from many museums (mostly in Germany and Central Europe), some of which are IIIF-enabled

iiif.link

A url shortener for sharing a IIIF resource; upon opening the URL the viewer will open at the saved zoom and region of interest

Open in IIIF Viewer

A web browser extension to open IIIF manifest link in your favorite IIIF viewer

ALTO to Annotation list

This XSLT converts an ALTO xml document to an annotation lists for use with a IIIF manifests

Annocoda

Mobile-friendly web app that uses IIIF Content Search 2.0 and Presentation 3.0 to provide image search capabilities

JavaScript library that uses custom tags and url of the annotation to load annotated image, corresponding annotations, tags, and text into HTML object or OpenSeadragon viewer with overlays

– A scholarly annotation and publication workbench. Glycerine provides end-to-end workflows for collaboration and publishing of images. Glycerine is a comprehensive framework for institutional integration

A popular and award-winning Digital Humanities platform for collaborative document annotation, maintained by

Demos of using annotations for storytelling

annotot

Simple IIIF annotations mounted in a Ruby on Rails applications

CatchPy

Django-based annotation server with support for Web Annotation and AnnotatorJS APIs, using JWT for auth. Originally developed for the AnnotationsX LTI tool, CatchPy also supports tagging and responses

Elucidate

Java and Postgres annotation server

Europeana

Extension to the Europeana REST API that allows you to create, retrieve, and manage annotations on Europeana objects

ipfs-iiif-db

[deprecated] - IIIF annotations JS client over IPFS

Local IIIF Annotation Server

[deprecated] - Jekyll front end, Flask backend, equipped with Vagrant Box that provides a Mirador viewer for creating and save annotations into Jekyll site. Annotations are sharable by using GitHub pages with Jekyll front end

MangoServer

[deprecated] - Mongo-backed annotation server written in Python

Miiify

Light-weight annotation server built on the same principles as Git

SimpleAnnotationServer

Java annotation server backed by an Apache Jena triple store, Sesame, or Solr

a web application for viewing, editing and sharing narratives and pathways on IIIF images

Website that allows users to create annotations via their GitHub account. The website saves all the annotations to the user's GitHub. Also makes use of Annona and allows users to create custom Annona views

IIIF Annotation Studio

Mirador Viewer packaged as a desktop app (macos, linux) with an embedded annotation endpoint that saves annotations to a local sqlite database

a crowd-sourced art tagging toolset

iiif-annotations

A proof-of-concept, annotating a IIIF manifest with Zooniverse classification data. See also and on the ability to use IIIF to import media into the Zooniverse project builder

a crowdsourcing platform for archives and libraries where volunteers transcribe, index, and describe historic documents

a flexible crowdsourcing, research and teaching platform for digitised collections

a crowdsourcing framework to analyze or enrich data that can't be processed by machines alone

an online platform for collaborative document annotation

Drupal 7 module that provides an easy way to add IIIF Images to content types, and configure their display. Supports Image API versions 1.0 or 2.0

Omeka S module that implements the IIIF Image and Presentation APIs

IIIF Toolkit

IIIF Toolkit by University of Toronto Libraries is a plugin for Omeka Classic (2.3+) that integrates Mirador with a built-in annotator, a manifest generator, Simple Pages shortcodes and Exhibit Builder blocks for a rich presentation experience

a WordPress plugin that introduces scientific and interactive Gutenberg blocks to facilitate open science. The can be fed with a IIIF Manifest. It relies on viewer and allows the usage of the API Manifest to view images and audio/visual content

Mirador Viewer Omeka S Module

Omeka S module that integrates the Mirador image viewer

Omeka S module that integrates UniversalViewer

Mirador extension to MediaWiki

MediaWiki extension which offers the Mirador Viewer along with a number of open-source plugins

from Teklia

Open ONI (Open Online Newspaper Initiative)

Open Online Newspaper Initiative (Open ONI) is a community-maintained project to make historic American newspapers browsable and searchable on the web

Working documents of the Interest Group for meeting minutes, and working drafts of best practices, etc

ndnp_iiif

Python program for turning into static IIIF JSON that is ready for mounting on the Web

Populating the Annotation Store with IIIF Annotation List

Provides instructions on how to edit OCR text using annotations in Mirador

Provides access to over 1 million newspaper pages using the IIIF Image API

National Library of Wales' guide to provides an explanation and examples of how IIIF applies to newspapers

Cell biology annotations in a deep zoom viewer

a web application to visualise and annotate collaboratively high resolution histology data

A 3D environment that displays nineteenth-century trade cards from the . Designed to be viewed on a mobile phone, ideally with Google Cardboard. Created using three.js by Jon White, Cogapp

Getty's tool leverages IIIF to create custom patterns featuring artwork from famous art collections around the world

Award-winning digital art app that cuts and re-combines historical portraits. Based on IIIF

a tool for exploring historic urban atlases in metropolitan Boston and telling stories about how places have changed over time

Award-winning web application to create designs for smartphone cases from IIIF resources

A IIIF powered, Chrome extension that displays a random map from the David Rumsey Map Collection everytime you open a new tab in your browser. Built using Leaflet-IIIF and React.js. Created by Jack Reed, Stanford University Libraries

Deep zoom into a huge (1bn x 1bn pixel) fractal image, created by Sean Martin, Applied IIIF

Deep zoom of an HDR Image of an 70ies wallpaper - works in Chome-based browsers, with an HDR-capable monitor

use IIIF to create printable versions of your favorite work at a variety of scales

Exploring Stereo Photos with IIIF

Image comparison using leaflet magnifying glass by Digirati

Image comparison using leaflet slider by Digirati

a way to pair a video discussion with digital collections objects that zoom and pan while synchronized with the video, while still allowing free exploration

Animated IIIF images on mouse over, look at the hero section, drag to right to reveal more animations

An AppleTV application that uses IIIF to turn any room into a map room

Drag-and-drop image tile puzzles created by Michael Appleby, Yale Center for British Art

Experiment with the W3C Web Annotation Data Model. The annotations present a sequence of stories associated with a large image. Optimised for mobile. Created by Andrew Dyton and Stephen Fraser, Digirati, for Wellcome Collection

a Medieval Word Maker, created by Ben Albritton, Stanford University Libraries

Cogapp's showcase of recent experiments in digital storytelling using IIIF

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