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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

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.

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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.

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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:

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Also, you can set a more complex pattern containing placeholders {manifest_URI} and {canvas_URI}.

For example:

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.

WebsiteWorks?Example
BiblissimaYestest
Bodleian LibrariesYes<sup>1</sup><sup>4</sup>test
Cambridge University LibraryYestest
Digital Vatican LibraryYestest
e-codicesYestest
EuropeanaYes<sup>3</sup>test
GallicaYes<sup>3</sup>test
Harvard Art MuseumsYestest
Heidelberg University LibraryYestest
Internet ArchiveYes<sup>3</sup>test
J. Paul Getty MuseumYestest
Qatar Digital LibraryYestest
Stanford LibrariesYes/Yestest/test
UCLA LibraryYestest
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign LibraryYestest
Wellcome LibraryYes<sup>4</sup>test
World Digital LibraryYestest
Yale Center for British ArtYestest

(more...)

IIIF Websites in Japan

WebsiteWorks?Example
National Diet Library Digital Collections (NDL)Yestest
Database of Pre-modern Japanese Text (CODH)Yestest
Database of Pre-Modern Japanese Works (NIJL)Yestest
Collection for Study of the Japanese Language History (NINJAL)Yes<sup>2</sup>test
Digital Collections of Keio University LibrariesYestest
Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital ArchiveYestest
University of Tokyo Library SystemYestest
Shimane University Library Digital Archive CollectionYestest
Kyushu University CollectionsYestest

(more...)

<a id="note1">1</a>: Though the tooltip of the toolbar button is not updated in real-time, clicking on the button will open the correct manifest.

<a id="note2">2</a>: Use a context menu item “Open link in IIIF viewer” as needed.

<a id="note3">3</a>: Ad-hoc support.

<a id="note4">4</a>: It used to work, but as of July 2022, it no longer works due to changes on the site.