New Maps For Museums


Major fine art galleries, museums too universities approximately the basis are adopting the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF). IIIF is a standardized method of describing too delivering images over the web. In interactive mapping damage you lot powerfulness tell it is a measure for creating interactive map tiles for images of documents, manuscripts, photographs too paintings.

One final result from this adoption of IIIF is that at that spot are hundreds of thousands of manuscripts, paintings too other documents which tin directly endure viewed every bit interactive maps. Yesterday inward Mapping Van Gogh nosotros looked at an impressive Leaflet.js based tool for browsing IIIF manifests. The IIIF Curation Viewer allows you lot to glue inward the URL of a IIIF manifest too persuasion a manuscript or ikon every bit a zoomable prototype inward a Leaflet map. You tin purpose the tool to explore whatever painting, manuscript or other prototype shared yesteryear institutions approximately the basis inward the IIIF format.

Instead of using this Leaflet IIIF Viewer, made yesteryear the Center for Open Data inward the Humanities, you lot could brand your own. Leaflet-IIIF is a uncomplicated to purpose plug-in for creating a Leaflet based browser for IIIF manifests or images shared using the IIIF Image API. If you lot purpose this Leaflet plug-in you lot tin too then brand interactive maps from tens of thousands of manuscripts, paintings too other images held yesteryear some of the best known global fine art galleries, museums too universities. For event Princeton University are using the plug-in to demo a Plan of Versailles every bit an interactive Leaflet map.

If you lot prefer OpenLayers you lot tin purpose Klokan Technologies' IIIF Viewer instead. This open-source IIIF Viewer uses the OpenLayers interactive map library to display images using IIIF. Here are a few examples of the IIIF Viewer inward action. 
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