Major fine art galleries, museums as well as universities around the basis are adopting the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF). IIIF is a standardized method of describing as well as delivering images over the web. In interactive mapping price yous mightiness tell it is a measure for creating interactive map tiles for images of documents, manuscripts, photographs as well as paintings.
One number from this adoption of IIIF is that at that spot are hundreds of thousands of manuscripts, paintings as well as other documents which tin flame right away hold out viewed every bit interactive maps. Yesterday inwards Mapping Van Gogh nosotros looked at an impressive Leaflet.js based tool for browsing IIIF manifests. The IIIF Curation Viewer allows yous to glue inwards the URL of a IIIF manifest as well as persuasion a manuscript or icon every bit a zoomable paradigm inwards a Leaflet map. You tin flame move the tool to explore whatever painting, manuscript or other paradigm shared past times institutions around the basis inwards the IIIF format.
Instead of using this Leaflet IIIF Viewer, made past times the Center for Open Data inwards the Humanities, yous could brand your own. Leaflet-IIIF is a unproblematic to move plug-in for creating a Leaflet based browser for IIIF manifests or images shared using the IIIF Image API. If yous move this Leaflet plug-in yous tin flame as well as thus brand interactive maps from tens of thousands of manuscripts, paintings as well as other images held past times some of the best known global fine art galleries, museums as well as universities. For instance Princeton University are using the plug-in to demo a Plan of Versailles every bit an interactive Leaflet map.
