Universal Viewer

The Universal Viewer is a powerful document viewer. The Universal Viewer is an open source project (https://universalviewer.io/) that cultural heritage institutions are using in order to present their digital artifacts in a IIIF-compliant and highly customisable user interface.

IIIF stands for the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF). IIIF refers usually to one or two things (and sometimes both at the same time):

• A set of open standards that help archives, libraries, and museums make the most of their digitized collections with deep zoom, annotation capabilities, and more, and

• The community of users and developers who work everyday to enrich the IIIF ecosystem and advocate for its adoption.

The Universal Viewer client can provide many benefits: