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

Firefox
- Install (signed by Mozilla)
- If you use Firefox ESR 52, please set webextensions.storage.sync.enabled to true in about:config.
Google Chrome
- Chrome Web Store

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:

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.

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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	~~Yes¹~~⁴	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	~~Yes~~⁴	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.