Open in IIIF Viewer
A Firefox/Chrome extension to open IIIF manifest link in your favorite IIIF viewer.
(This browser extension is formerly named “Open IIIF Manifest Link in Favorite Viewer.”)
Install
v0.1.13 (2022-07-10: For details, see the GitHub repo.)
- Firefox
- Install (signed by Mozilla)
- If you use Firefox ESR 52, please set
webextensions.storage.sync.enabledtotruein about:config.
- Google Chrome
Usage
When the web page you are browsing contains a link to a IIIF manifest, by clicking on the toolbar button of this extension, you can open the link in the IIIF viewer specified on the options page.
By right-clicking on a link to the IIIF manifest, a context menu item “Open link in IIIF viewer” appears, which allows you to open the link in your preferred IIIF viewer.
Options
On the options page, set the URL field depending on the particular IIIF viewer you want to use.
Note that IIIF viewers hosted on HTTPS servers cannot display IIIF manifests hosted on HTTP servers.
For example:
- Open in IIIF Curation Viewer (default)
http://codh.rois.ac.jp/software/iiif-curation-viewer/demo/?manifest=
- Open in Mirador 2 (thanks to Kiyonori Nagasaki)
http://candra.dhii.jp/nagasaki/mirador_if.php?manifest=
- Open in Mirador 3
https://projectmirador.org/embed/?manifest=
- Open in Universal Viewer v2
http://universalviewer.io/uv.html?manifest=
- Open in Universal Viewer v3
https://uv-v3.netlify.app/#?manifest=
- Open in Universal Viewer v4
https://uv-v4.netlify.app/#?manifest=
- Open as JSON
- Leave the URL setting field blank.
Also, you can set a more complex pattern containing placeholders {manifest_URI} and {canvas_URI}.
For example:
- Open in IIIF Curation Viewer
http://codh.rois.ac.jp/software/iiif-curation-viewer/demo/?manifest={manifest_URI}&canvas={canvas_URI}&lang=en
- Open in Mirador
http://2sc1815j.net/mirador-loader/?manifest={manifest_URI}&canvas={canvas_URI}
- Open in Universal Viewer
http://2sc1815j.net/uv-loader/?manifest={manifest_URI}&canvas={canvas_URI}
Notes
On some web pages, the extension cannot recognize links to IIIF manifests or may misrecognize links to non-IIIF manifests.
This uncertainty is reduced if the IIIF community specifies (or recommends) the machine-readable patterns for a link to a IIIF manifest. See a proposal.
The brief list of IIIF websites on which the extension works or not is as follows.
| Website | Works? | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Biblissima | Yes | test |
| Bodleian Libraries | test | |
| Cambridge University Library | Yes | test |
| Digital Vatican Library | Yes | test |
| e-codices | Yes | test |
| Europeana | Yes3 | test |
| Gallica | Yes3 | test |
| Harvard Art Museums | Yes | test |
| Heidelberg University Library | Yes | test |
| Internet Archive | Yes3 | test |
| J. Paul Getty Museum | Yes | test |
| Qatar Digital Library | Yes | test |
| Stanford Libraries | Yes/Yes | test/test |
| UCLA Library | Yes | test |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library | Yes | test |
| Wellcome Library | test | |
| World Digital Library | Yes | test |
| Yale Center for British Art | Yes | test |
(more...)
IIIF Websites in Japan
| Website | Works? | Example |
|---|---|---|
| National Diet Library Digital Collections (NDL) | Yes | test |
| Database of Pre-modern Japanese Text (CODH) | Yes | test |
| Database of Pre-Modern Japanese Works (NIJL) | Yes | test |
| Collection for Study of the Japanese Language History (NINJAL) | Yes2 | test |
| Digital Collections of Keio University Libraries | Yes | test |
| Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive | Yes | test |
| University of Tokyo Library System | Yes | test |
| Shimane University Library Digital Archive Collection | Yes | test |
| Kyushu University Collections | Yes | test |
(more...)
1: Though the tooltip of the toolbar button is not updated in real-time, clicking on the button will open the correct manifest.
2: Use a context menu item “Open link in IIIF viewer” as needed.
3: Ad-hoc support.
4: It used to work, but as of July 2022, it no longer works due to changes on the site.