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It\u2019s been developed for people using digitised library, archive and museum collections. Its particularly good for working with images, and for working with images from different institutions. You can find a list of collections that use IIIF on the official website<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The best way to understand IIIF is to see it in action: in the video below I show you how it can be used with our image collections. We look at our newest collection Views of England and Wales<\/a>. This is a collection of over 2000 images of historic landscapes, buildings and monuments. Most of them are 18th<\/sup> and 19th<\/sup> century prints, but there are some drawings and watercolours as well. I have some suggestions in the video for how IIIF might be useful for research using topographical images; these ideas are also applicable to our Ghost Signs<\/a> collection or Vanished Leicester<\/a>. IIIF also works for books and other text-based documents, including the Historical Directories<\/a> collection. However, it doesn’t currently work with sound, film or 3D objects.
We have recently added a new function called IIIF, and its associated Mirador viewer, to our Special Collections Online<\/a> platform. If you haven\u2019t heard of IIIF before: it stands for International Image Interoperability Framework.<\/em> It is a technology that allows you view media files from online collections in a single, user-friendly viewer.
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