Universal Viewer

The word "Universal" means more than a technical "show me all the things". More importantly, it means "for everyone". Thank you to our community and sponsors for their support: opencollective.com/universalviewer #opensource

The Mainz Psalter is now available on the Universal Viewer! This 1457 publication was the second major book printed using movable type in the West. 📖View the full item here: access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ar… #FullyDigitised

exhibit.so custom instances now have a file upload and #IIIF manifest generation feature. Great for getting your story online quickly! youtu.be/KMA8kDaESd8

You can view more of William Crane's illustrations on our @universalviewer: access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ar…

#Lovaniensia is the 2nd collections enriched with #OCR data coming from our @googlebooks partnership. All @KU_Leuven digitised books (1078!) are now full text searchable in the @universalviewer on the #Lovanviensia platform lovaniensia.be/solr-search/?q… @SpColl_KULeuven @LIBISintoinfo

The website makes use of @iiif_io and @universalviewer for displaying related digital editions from various institutions without the need to leave the page. This one is from the amazing archaeological collection of @HeidelbergU library.

Harvard Library used exhibit.so for their "Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom: Primary Sources from Houghton Library" project 👀 curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/slavery-abolit… #iiif

#iiif @edsilv demonstrates the features of the amazing exhibit.so - you can build quizzes, embed YouTube videos and more @mnemoscene_io

@pendragon_dt We've compiled a set of examples on @codesandbox here: github.com/UniversalViewe… These should help provide an easy way to get started with v4. Our slack channel is always open too if you need help with upgrading :-)

@universalviewer That's great! Is there a changelog or upgrade guide?

UV version 4.0.0 has just been released 🎉 Huge thanks go to our developer community and Steering Group members for making this 3 year modernisation effort possible! github.com/UniversalViewe… #IIIF

Finally deployed the wonderful open source @iiif_io @universalviewer for @BFI colleagues to access our 1.4 million digital photographs from c90 years of film and tv collecting. Next up, deploy for BFI Reuben Library users. Get Carter photo preserved by BFI National Archive.

We just fixed a bug in exhibit.so that was preventing it from working with @iiif_io manifests served from @omeka S. Looking forward to seeing what exhibits people make!

@Muminucciu Hi! There are some editable examples here, including one with a full config.json: github.com/UniversalViewe…

@universalviewer Hello, is there a complete reference somewhere for the config.json of UV ? i can't find any real documentation thanks

@imagingkuleuven @googlebooks @KU_Leuven @SpColl_KULeuven @LIBISintoinfo @KULTheology That's awesome!

Uploading our digitised objects to @googlebooks platform enriches our data with #OCR. The @KU_Leuven collection of incunabula is now also full text searchable in the @universalviewer from our catalogue: limo.libis.be/primo-explore/… @SpColl_KULeuven @LIBISintoinfo @KULTheology

An experiment: "exhibit" Maurisperg's Neo-Latin play on Stanislaus Kostka (1730) using the @bsb_muenchen IIIF image manifest (for its digital facsimile of the book) and exhibit.so online tool by @universalviewer: exhibit.so/exhibits/ccdT0…

#WoodcutWednesday incunabulum 'Siege of Thebes', by Lydgate, John; ca. 1494, publisher: Wynkyn de Worde ( I ❤️ that name!) Fully digitised💻& available online in #IIIF ▶️ access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ar… #digitisation #archives #openaccess @BLprintheritage @practicalIIIF @universalviewer

Nimm teil an einer exotischen Reise mit den alten und seltenen Drucken und Karten der ETH-Bibliothek – ganz bequem von zu Hause aus. Zur virtuellen Ausstellung: ow.ly/xpqT50IcWRA #MehrWissen #RareBooks

The Heritage Made Digital Team is always busy making available digitised @britishlibrary collection items online 📚💻 in our @universalviewer in #IIIF Check out this current guide bl.uk/collection-gui… Images recently published ORB.40/830 #Archive30 #DigitalArchives @ARAScot

Using #IIIF to reunite a 1000 y/o #Christian #Arabic miscellany - some folios at the @britishlibrary others at @Ambrosiana1609 and the rest not yet found! Read more about my work following @BLQatar Bink Hallum's research blogs.bl.uk/digital-schola… @BLAsia_Africa

Making good progress learning @FlutterDev. If anyone fancies trying out an Android APK of my @FitzMuseum_UK experiment, dm me. Now have 360 gallery views, 3d models, universal viewer iiif images, audio and video files packaged up. Layout polish and a few buggy things to do.