The Center for Open Data inwards the Humanities has created a real impressive Leaflet.js based tool for browsing historical manuscripts, paintings as well as other documents. The IIIF Curation Viewer is an open-source epitome viewer that allows yous to thought whatever epitome that has an IIIF Manifest (a mutual criterion used yesteryear many museums, galleries as well as universities some the world).
In this demo of the IIIF Curation Viewer the application is beingness used to allow yous to explore an ancient Japanese manuscript. Using the document viewer yous tin motion backwards as well as forwards through the dissimilar pages of the manuscript (or lead whatever page from the drib downwardly menu). Selecting the dark foursquare push from the map bill of fare allows yous to describe some private text characters inwards the document. When yous lead a graphic symbol inwards this agency an information window opens alongside the modern Japanese translation of the character.
You tin utilization the IIIF Curation Viewer to thought whatever document, epitome or epitome that has an IIIF Manifest. For illustration hither is Van Gogh's Self Portrait (Dedicated to Gauguin). If yous await at the URL for the Van Gogh epitome inwards the viewer yous should endure able to encounter where I added the URL for the painting's IIIF Manifest (I got the manifest from the Harvard Art Museum website). Here is some other illustration where I but added the URL for Rossetti's A Sea Spell.
If yous are to a greater extent than interested inwards seeing how the IIIF Curation Viewer handles text as well as hence hither is a letter from Francis Crick to Michael Crick, where Crick discusses the regain of something he calls DNA. The drawing tool inwards the map allows yous to lead whatever utilization of the document to exercise an epitome of your alternative (you tin encounter the epitome I saved inwards a higher house of Crick's advert of 'Deoxyribonucleic acid' inwards the letter.
If the play's the affair for yous as well as hence yous mightiness prefer this Leaflet map of the complete industrial plant of Shakespeare. Of course of written report the IIIF Curation Viewer tin also endure used to await at maps. Here's the Gough Map from some 1360.
