Where to find IIIF
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Tools
- https://github.com/2SC1815J/open-in-iiif-viewer is “a Firefox/Chrome extension to open IIIF manifest link in your favorite IIIF viewer”.
Internet Archive
Images in the Internet Archive accessible through a IIIF endpoint. Instructions are located here: https://medium.com/@aeschylus/use-internet-archives-iiif-endpoint-to-unlock-your-images-potential-9b0a3efa5b55
Wikipedia
See https://dnoneill.github.io/annotate/wikipedia for Information.
ContentDM images
Search any image in ContentDM. https://researchworks.oclc.org/iiif-explorer/
Other repositories
| Institution | Interface | Types | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg, Hiob-Ludolf-Zentrum für Äthiopistik, Universität Hamburg | https://betamasaheft.eu/ | Manuscripts | |
| Art Institute of Chicago | https://www.artic.edu/collection | Various | To get IIIF image, right click on image and open image in new tab. Replace the 843, with full. Copy URL to use in the annotation on any image page. |
| Badische Landes-Bibliothek | https://digital.blb-karlsruhe.de/ | Manuscripts, Incunabula, Newspapers, Music, Playbills, Maps, Atlases and more. | |
| Bavarian State Library | https://app.digitale-sammlungen.de/bookshelf/ | Medieval Manuscripts and Incunabula, Newspapers, East Asian books and Manuscripts | |
| Belvedere | https://digital.belvedere.at/search/*? | Various | IIIF images have IIIF logo in metadata |
| Biblioteca Digital de Cuba | http://iiif.sld.cu | Atlas, Calendarios, Calendars, Carteles, Posters, Mapas, Manuscritos, Manuscripts, Fotos, Photos, Libros, Books, Libros Raros y Valiosos, Rare Books, Seriadas, Serials. | |
| Biblioteca Pinacoteca Accademia Ambrosiana | http://ambrosiana.comperio.it/biblioteca-digitale/search?q= | Manuscripts | |
| Bibliothèque Mazarine / Mazarinum | https://mazarinum.bibliotheque-mazarine.fr | Incunabula / Incunables, Encyclopedias / Encyclopédie, Music / Musique and more. | |
| Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) | http://gallica.bnf.fr | Books, Manuscripts, Maps, Images, Press, Sounds, Scores, Objects, Videos | https://github.com/2SC1815J/open-in-iiif-viewer provides the easiest way of getting the manifest for objects in this site. |
| Bibliothèque virtuelle des manuscrits médiévaux (BVMM) | https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr | Manuscripts | |
| Biblissima | https://iiif.biblissima.fr/collections/ | Manuscripts and Rare Books | |
| Blavatnik Archive | https://www.blavatnikarchive.org/collections | Posters, Periodicals, Photography, Illustrations, etc. | |
| Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University | https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk | Manuscripts, Maps, Music, Ephemera, Printed Books, Blockbooks and Woodcut Prints, and more. | |
| Bodmer Foundation; University of Geneva | https://bodmerlab.unige.ch | Manuscripts | Click Mirador button, in Mirador click info button, manifest should be listed. |
| British Library and Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) | https://manuscrits-france-angleterre.org/polonsky/en/content/accueil-en?mode=desktop | 800 medieval manuscripts of France and England | |
| Brown University Library | https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/ | Various | |
| Cambridge University Library | https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/ | ||
| Center for Open Data in the Humanities | http://codh.rois.ac.jp/dataset/ | Japanese Texts | |
| Chester Beatty Library | https://viewer.cbl.ie/viewer/index/ | Artworks and Manuscripts | |
| Columbia University Libraries | https://dlc.library.columbia.edu/biggert/ | The Biggert Collection of Architectural Vignettes | Rights: https://dlc.library.columbia.edu/biggert/rights/ |
| Columbia University Libraries | https://stylerevolution.github.io/ | Journal des dames et des modes Fashion plates from 1797-1804 | From website: ‘All images of the plates are copyright of The Morgan Library & Museum. Seek permission before re-use. Otherwise all original work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.’ |
| Database of Pre-Modern Japanese Works | https://kotenseki.nijl.ac.jp/ | Japanese works | |
| David Rumsey Map Collection | https://www.davidrumsey.com | Maps | Click “share” on item pages for IIIF manifest URL |
| Digital Library of Medieval Manuscripts: Roman de la Rose and Christine de Pizan Digital Scriptorium | https://dlmm.library.jhu.edu/viewer/https://jdm.library.jhu.edu/iiif-pres-dlmm/dlmm/collection | ||
| Digital Public Library of America | http://dp.la/search?type%5B%5D=image | ||
| Digital Repository of Ireland | https://repository.dri.ie/catalog?mode=collections&search_field=all_fields | ||
| Distributed Digital Music Archives and Libraries lab at the Schulich School of Music | https://musiclibs.net | Musical scores and manuscripts | |
| Duke University Libraries | https://repository.duke.edu/dc | Photographs, Advertisements, and more. | On item page go to download button when on correct page. Under CURRENTLY DISPLAYED IMAGE right click on “Full Res JPG” and open into a new tab. Use url in Create annotations on any image. |
| Durham University Library | https://iiif.durham.ac.uk/manifests/trifle/collection/index | Prints, Photographs, and more. | |
| E-Codices | https://www.e-codices.ch/ | Manuscripts, Fragment, Autograph, Document, Scroll/Roll, Virtual Manuscripts, Wax Tablets | |
| E-manuscripta.ch | https://www.e-manuscripta.ch/ | Texts, Correspondence, Music Notes, Pictures, Maps, Plans, Various | |
| E-rara.ch | https://www.e-rara.ch/ | Rare books, Pamphlets, Swiss prints, and more. | |
| EPFL Library | https://plume.epfl.ch | Maps, Plans, Prints, Manuscripts, Incunabula and more. | Click Mirador button, in Mirador click info button, manifest should be listed. |
| Europeana | https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/search?q=provider_aggregation_edm_isShownBy%3Aiiif&view=grid | 1914-1918, Archaeology, Art, Fashion, Manuscripts, Maps and Geography, Migration, Music, Natural History, Newspapers, Photography, Sport | |
| Folger Shakespeare Library | https://collections.folger.edu | ||
| Fragmentarium | https://fragmentarium.ms/ | Medieval Manuscript Fragments | |
| French Renaissance Paleography | https://paleography.library.utoronto.ca | Manuscripts, Calligraphy Books, Historical Maps | https://github.com/2SC1815J/open-in-iiif-viewer provides the easiest way of getting the manifest for objects in this site. |
| Göttingen State and University Library | https://sammlungen.uni-goettingen.de | ||
| Harvard Art Museum | https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections | Various | |
| Harvard University Library | https://images.hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/search?vid=HVD_IMAGES&sortby=rank&lang=en_UShttps://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu | Various | |
| Hochschul und Landesbibliothek Fulda | https://fuldig.hs-fulda.de | Manuscripts, Incunabula, Maps, Family and Estate papers, charters, Fragments, Newspapers and Periodicals, Music, and more. | Under cite and reuse sidebar click on IIIF manifest, this will copy the manifest url. |
| IIIF Discovery in Japan | http://iiif2.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/s/iiif/page/home | Japanese Works | |
| IIIF Manifests for Buddhist Studies | http://bauddha.dhii.jp/SAT/iiifmani/show.php | ||
| Indiana University, Bloomington Lilly Library | https://ericayhayes.github.io/audubon/ | Selections from John James Audubon’s Birds of America | |
| Indigenous Digital Archive | https://omeka.dlcs-ida.org/s/ida/page/home | 500,000 archival documents about Santa Fe Indian School and others, all kinds of boarding school records, yearbooks, and letters. | |
| J. Paul Getty Museum | http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/ | Antiquities, Drawings, Manuscripts, Paintings, Photographs, Sculpture and Decroative Arts | |
| KU Leuven Libraries | http://www.lovaniensia.be | ||
| Keio University Libraries | http://dcollections.lib.keio.ac.jp | Japanese texts, Incunabula | |
| Klassik Stiftung Weimar | https://haab-digital.klassik-stiftung.de/ | Under cite and reuse sidebar click on IIIF manifest, this will copy the manifest url. | |
| Kunideco Image Wall | https://lab.ndl.go.jp/dhii/kunidecoview/ | Japanese texts | |
| Kyoto University | https://rmda.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp | Japanese texts, German documents, Korean metal/stone rubbings, and more. | |
| Kyushu University | https://catalog.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/opac_search/ | ||
| Lectio | http://lectio.ghum.kuleuven.be/lectio/solr-search?q=*&facet=itemtype%3A%22Object%22 | ||
| Leiden University Libraries | https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl | Various | |
| Leipzig University Library | https://iiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de/static/collections/toplevel.json | ||
| Library of Congress | https://www.loc.gov/collections/ | Not all images are in IIIF. If it is IIIF compatible the IIIF manifest will be listed in the metadata record. | |
| MIT Museum | https://collections.mitmuseum.org | Various | To get IIIF image click on the download drop down on the object page. Click any of the sizes, a new window with a URL will open up. Make sure that url has /full/full/0/default.jpg. So for the ‘Large image size’ link, https://iiif.mitmuseiiif.com:8182/iiif/2/CF-38-045.jp2/full/!2000,2000/0/default.jpg should become https://iiif.mitmuseiiif.com:8182/iiif/2/CF-38-045.jp2/full/full/0/default.jpg. Then it can be used with the Create annotations on any image functionality. As with all these resources be mindful of rights. |
| Manducus.net (selected fine art) | https://manducus.net/ | Art | |
| Manuscripta.se | https://www.manuscripta.se/ | Manuscripts | https://github.com/2SC1815J/open-in-iiif-viewer provides the easiest way of getting the manifest for objects in this site. |
| Manuscriptorium (National Library of the Czech Republic) | http://www.manuscriptorium.com/ | uses share icon to get image | |
| NC State University Libraries | https://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections | Photographs, Drawings, Newspapers, and more. | |
| National Diet Library | http://dl.ndl.go.jp/ | Books, Periodicals, Rare Books and Old Materials, Dissertations, Gazettes, and more. | IIIF images are marked with IIIF icon in search results |
| National Gallery of Art | https://www.nga.gov/collection.html | Art | https://github.com/2SC1815J/open-in-iiif-viewer provides the easiest way of getting the manifest for objects in this site. |
| National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics | https://dglb01.ninjal.ac.jp/ninjaldl/ | ||
| National Library of Israel | http://www.nli.org.ilhttp://iiif.nli.org.il/collections/root.json | Books, Manuscripts, Maps, Images, Press, Sounds, Scores, Objects, Videos | |
| National Library of Norway | https://www.nb.no/search | Various | To get the manifest get everything after ?manifest= in the URL bar. Then use https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/ to decode format the URL correctly. Then use the manifest. |
| National Library of Scotland | https://digital.nls.uk/ | Various | |
| National Library of Wales | https://discover.library.wales/primo-explore/search?vid=44WHELF_NLW_NUI&lang=en_US | Archives and Manuscripts, Images, Books, Maps, Journals, Audio Visual, Scores. | Change “In the Library” to “Digitised Items” and search. |
| Northwestern Libraries | https://dc.library.northwestern.edu/ | Posters, contact sheets, menus, postcards, and more. | |
| Nubis bibliothèque numérique | https://nubis.univ-paris1.fr | https://github.com/2SC1815J/open-in-iiif-viewer provides the easiest way of getting the manifest for objects in this site. | |
| Oberösterreichische Landesbibliothek | https://digi.landesbibliothek.at | Manuscripts, Incunabula, Maps, Periodicals, and more. | Under cite and reuse sidebar click on IIIF manifest, this will copy the manifest url. |
| Ohio State University Libraries | https://library.osu.edu/dc | Cartoons, Rare books and Manuscripts and more. | |
| Princeton University Art Museum | https://t.co/VpSejDOlhQ?amp=1 | Art | |
| Princeton University Library | https://dpul.princeton.edu/catalog?search_field=all_fields&utf8=%E2%9C%93 | Various | |
| Qatar National Library | https://www.qdl.qa | Letters, Archival files, Archival items, Maps, Photographs, Manuscritps, Letter book, Book, and more. | |
| RBML Liturgical Books | https://elotroalex.github.io/liturgical-books/ | Liturgical Books | |
| Royal Collections Trust | https://albert.rct.uk/collections/ | Materials about Prince Albert | |
| SAT Taishōzō Image DB | https://dzkimgs.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SATi/images.php | ||
| Scholastic Commentaries and Text Archive | http://mirador.scta.info | Scholastic Commentaries and Text | |
| Shimane University Library | http://da.lib.shimane-u.ac.jp/content/ | ||
| Smithsonian Instituion Archives | http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=&iiif.enabled=true | Various | |
| Stadtbibliothek Lübeck | http://digital.stadtbibliothek.luebeck.de/viewer/ | Prints, Manuscripts, Incunabula, Catalogs, Music, Address books, and more. | Under cite and reuse sidebar click on IIIF manifest, this will copy the manifest url. |
| Stanford | https://searchworks.stanford.edu/catalog?f%5Biiif_resources%5D%5B%5D=availablehttps://exhibits.stanford.edu | Art, Maps, Photographs, and more | |
| Texas A&M University Libraries | https://spotlight.library.tamu.edu/spotlight/alice-in-wonderland/browse/all-exhibit-items | Alice in Wonderland Exhibit | |
| TextGrid | https://textgridrep.org/https://textgridlab.org/1.0/iiif/manifests/ | ||
| The Arabian Gulf Digital Archive (National Archives of the UK and the National Archives of the United Arab Emirates) | https://www.agda.ae/ | Various | |
| The Frick Collection | https://collections.frick.org/objects/images | Art | |
| The Huntington Digital Library | https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/ | Also avaliable via Content DM | |
| The Leiden Collection | https://www.theleidencollection.com | seventeenth-century Dutch art | |
| The Natural History Museum | https://data.nhm.ac.uk/vfactor_iiif | ||
| The Portal of Texas History | https://texashistory.unt.edu | 603 Collections on Texas History | |
| Trinity College Library, Cambridge | https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/wren-digital-library/ | Medieval and Modern Manuscripts, Printed Books | |
| Universite Paris | https://bibnum.explore.univ-psl.fr/s/psl/page/accueil | Scientific papers | |
| University College Dublin | https://digital.ucd.ie/ | Photographs, Maps, Essays, Journals | look under collection contents > thumnails for IIIF items |
| University of Edinburgh | http://images.is.ed.ac.uk | Manuscripts, Session Papers, Maps, Rare Books, and more. | Manifest is in “Share” link. |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library | https://digital.library.illinois.edu/ | ||
| University of Kassel | https://orka.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de/viewer/ | Monographs, Maps and plans, Periodicals, Photographs and more. | Under cite and reuse sidebar click on IIIF manifest, this will copy the manifest url. |
| University of Manchester | https://luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet | Codices, Manuscripts and more. | Manifest is in “Share” link. |
| University of Maryland Libraries | https://digital.lib.umd.edu | ||
| University of Michigan Libraries | https://quod.lib.umich.edu/lib/colllist/?byFormat=Image%20Collections&accessFacet=public | For https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/adams/ https://github.com/2SC1815J/open-in-iiif-viewer provides the easiest way of getting the manifest for objects in this site. For all other collections click on the Download button and View all sizes... dropdown. Right click on image and open in new tab, get URL from new tab. Replace res:3 with full. End of url should look like: /full/full/0/native.jpg. Enter the URL in https://dnoneill.github.io/annotate/imageditor/. |
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| University of North Texas Libraries | https://digital.library.unt.edu/ | click on image, click on tools drop down. | |
| University of Regina Archer Library | https://ourspace.uregina.ca/Archer50th/gallery/ | Campus Photos | |
| University of St. Andrews | https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/library/special-collections/ | click on image, click on embed symbol in mirador viewer, click on IIIF symbol | |
| University of Texas Libraries | https://collections.lib.utexas.edu/?utf8=✓&search_field=search&q=&search= | Images, Text, Periodicals, Broadsheet/sides, Maps and more. | |
| University of Tokyo | https://iiif.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/repo/s/hyakki/page/home | ||
| University of Toronto Libraries | https://fishercollections.library.utoronto.ca/islandora/search/https://fishercollections.library.utoronto.ca/content/fisher-iiif-collections | Various | |
| University of Washington Libraries | https://content.lib.washington.edu/ | Manifest listed in metadata record | |
| University of York | https://archbishopsregisters.york.ac.uk/iiif | ||
| Universitätsbibliothek Greifswald | http://www.digitale-bibliothek-mv.de/ | Under cite and reuse sidebar click on IIIF manifest, this will copy the manifest url. | |
| Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg | http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/digi/digilit.html | Japanese Works | |
| Vatican Library | https://digi.vatlib.it | Manuscripts, Printed Materian, Incunabula, Visual Materials, Coins and Medals, Archives, Inventories | |
| Villanova University | https://digital.library.villanova.edu | Newspapers, Trnscribed, Receipt, Letters, Images, Thesis and more. | |
| Virtual Hill Museum & Manuscript Library | https://www.vhmml.org/ | Manuscripts, Art, and more. | Some images may require registration but many are openly avaliable. |
| Visual Library | https://visuallibrary.net/s2wp | Prints, Codices, Incunabula, Manuscripts, Publications, Newspapers | |
| Wayne State University Libraries | https://digital.library.wayne.edu | Image, Documents, Issues, and more. | |
| Wellcome Library | https://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/browse/ | Various. | |
| World Digital Library | https://www.wdl.org/ | Books, Journals, Manuscripts, Maps, Motion Pictures, Newspapers, Prints, Photographs, Sound Recordings. | |
| Yale Center for British Art | https://britishart.yale.edu/collections/search | Artwork | Not all images are IIIF compliant. There will be a IIIF icon on the page of those that are IIIF compliant. |
| Yale University Library | https://collections.library.yale.edu | Photographic prints, Photographs, Scrapbooks, Maps, Manuscripts, Correspondence, Illustrations, and more. | |
| Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin (Berlin Central and Regional Library) | https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/ | Replace [uniqueid] with the unique identifier from the digital surrogate URL in the following url: https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/rest/iiif/manifests/[uniqueid]/manifest/ |