Universal Viewer
@universalviewer.io
The Universal Viewer is a community-developed open source project on a mission to help you share your 📚 📜 📰 📽️ 📻 🗿 with the 🌎
https://universalviewer.io/
https://universalviewer.io/
We’re continuing to improve our website together as a community! 🚀
Our 2nd WEB DEV sprint kicked off yesterday. Check out our Miro for the MVP and our community board to see what we’re working on 💫
miro.com/app/board/uX...
github.com/orgs/Univers...
Our 2nd WEB DEV sprint kicked off yesterday. Check out our Miro for the MVP and our community board to see what we’re working on 💫
miro.com/app/board/uX...
github.com/orgs/Univers...
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miro.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
We’re continuing to improve our website together as a community! 🚀
Our 2nd WEB DEV sprint kicked off yesterday. Check out our Miro for the MVP and our community board to see what we’re working on 💫
miro.com/app/board/uX...
github.com/orgs/Univers...
Our 2nd WEB DEV sprint kicked off yesterday. Check out our Miro for the MVP and our community board to see what we’re working on 💫
miro.com/app/board/uX...
github.com/orgs/Univers...
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Recognising the Power of Community Collaboration, the @universalviewer.io project (universalviewer.io) is shortlisted in the 6th Annual OpenUK Awards Community category sponsored by @Arm, taking place on 4th December at the House of Commons, thanks to Dame Chi Onwurah for hosting. #openukawards
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Recognising the Power of Community Collaboration, the @universalviewer.io project (universalviewer.io) is shortlisted in the 6th Annual OpenUK Awards Community category sponsored by @Arm, taking place on 4th December at the House of Commons, thanks to Dame Chi Onwurah for hosting. #openukawards
We're looking forward to seeing you at UVCON next week! Join us for a half-day of presentations and conversation about the past, present and future of the Universal Viewer. Here's a peek at the schedule
November 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
We're looking forward to seeing you at UVCON next week! Join us for a half-day of presentations and conversation about the past, present and future of the Universal Viewer. Here's a peek at the schedule
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OpenUK Awards 25 Community Category sponsored by Arm, Shortlist is live, congratulations to the shortlisted nominees: Andy Piper, @universalviewer.io (universalviewer.io), and Daniel Gale 🍾🥂🏆
#openukawards #opensource #community
#openukawards #opensource #community
November 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
OpenUK Awards 25 Community Category sponsored by Arm, Shortlist is live, congratulations to the shortlisted nominees: Andy Piper, @universalviewer.io (universalviewer.io), and Daniel Gale 🍾🥂🏆
#openukawards #opensource #community
#openukawards #opensource #community
We're very excited to have been shortlisted for an OpenUK award, in recognition of our amazing community of developers, managers, testers, curators, and translators. See you at the Oscars of Open Source! #openukawards @openuk.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM
We're very excited to have been shortlisted for an OpenUK award, in recognition of our amazing community of developers, managers, testers, curators, and translators. See you at the Oscars of Open Source! #openukawards @openuk.bsky.social
We want YOU for our next UV Community Project!
The Project runs from Tuesday 28 October 2025 until Thursday 19 February 2026 and will be focussing on improving the UV Community website. No coding experience necessary.
The Project runs from Tuesday 28 October 2025 until Thursday 19 February 2026 and will be focussing on improving the UV Community website. No coding experience necessary.
October 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
We want YOU for our next UV Community Project!
The Project runs from Tuesday 28 October 2025 until Thursday 19 February 2026 and will be focussing on improving the UV Community website. No coding experience necessary.
The Project runs from Tuesday 28 October 2025 until Thursday 19 February 2026 and will be focussing on improving the UV Community website. No coding experience necessary.
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"Radically inclusive software development for digital cultural heritage" a discussion around @universalviewer.io | @miaout.bsky.social, S Akhter, J Misson (speakers); L Okorodudu, E Burnand | Thanks for the @iiif.bsky.social Shoutout| @britishlibrary.bsky.social @bldigischol.bsky.social | #DH2025
July 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"Radically inclusive software development for digital cultural heritage" a discussion around @universalviewer.io | @miaout.bsky.social, S Akhter, J Misson (speakers); L Okorodudu, E Burnand | Thanks for the @iiif.bsky.social Shoutout| @britishlibrary.bsky.social @bldigischol.bsky.social | #DH2025
Next Thursday the team at @bldigischol.bsky.social will be talking about the UV's amazing community at @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social . Say hi if you want to talk about UV and IIIF over a pastel de nata!
The Digital Research team at DH2025
Several of the Digital Research team had proposals accepted and will be attending the Digital Humanities 2025 conference in Lisbon. To help get conversations started, we’ve compiled some information a...
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July 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Next Thursday the team at @bldigischol.bsky.social will be talking about the UV's amazing community at @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social . Say hi if you want to talk about UV and IIIF over a pastel de nata!
🚀 Universal Viewer 4.2 is here! Here are some highlights:
📱Our last community sprint focused on mobile UX, so users can now enjoy a fully-featured UV experience on the go.
📱Our last community sprint focused on mobile UX, so users can now enjoy a fully-featured UV experience on the go.
Release v4.2.0 · UniversalViewer/universalviewer
Highlights
Side panels accessible in mobile view #1343
Full footer options in mobile view #1343
Path to uv.html can now be set with options.embedTemplate by @crhallberg in #1254
Add console.error ...
github.com
June 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM
🚀 Universal Viewer 4.2 is here! Here are some highlights:
📱Our last community sprint focused on mobile UX, so users can now enjoy a fully-featured UV experience on the go.
📱Our last community sprint focused on mobile UX, so users can now enjoy a fully-featured UV experience on the go.
We’re halfway through our latest community sprint!
Our community team have been hard at work – check out our community board to see what they’ve been building, including a new tool to add and view custom configs github.com/orgs/Univers...
Our community team have been hard at work – check out our community board to see what they’ve been building, including a new tool to add and view custom configs github.com/orgs/Univers...
DEV EX Community Sprint May-July 2025 • UniversalViewer
A set of three community sprints to improve visibility of config options, improve documentation around analytics, update tools and dependencies and much more!
github.com
May 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
We’re halfway through our latest community sprint!
Our community team have been hard at work – check out our community board to see what they’ve been building, including a new tool to add and view custom configs github.com/orgs/Univers...
Our community team have been hard at work – check out our community board to see what they’ve been building, including a new tool to add and view custom configs github.com/orgs/Univers...
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We’ve expanded our extensive range of primary source collections that can be explored via the Universal Viewer!
You can find more information regarding the benefits of the Universal Viewer, as well as a list of the fascinating collections that we have recently migrated to it, at buff.ly/Ca7Id09
You can find more information regarding the benefits of the Universal Viewer, as well as a list of the fascinating collections that we have recently migrated to it, at buff.ly/Ca7Id09
Even More BOA Collections on the Universal Viewer!
We’ve expanded our extensive range of primary source collections that can be explored via the Universal Viewer!
buff.ly
May 14, 2025 at 9:01 AM
We’ve expanded our extensive range of primary source collections that can be explored via the Universal Viewer!
You can find more information regarding the benefits of the Universal Viewer, as well as a list of the fascinating collections that we have recently migrated to it, at buff.ly/Ca7Id09
You can find more information regarding the benefits of the Universal Viewer, as well as a list of the fascinating collections that we have recently migrated to it, at buff.ly/Ca7Id09
Want to contribute to open source software used by libraries and galleries all around the world? Our next community sprints will be kicking off May 7, June 10, and July 1! Our focus for these three sprints is...
April 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Want to contribute to open source software used by libraries and galleries all around the world? Our next community sprints will be kicking off May 7, June 10, and July 1! Our focus for these three sprints is...
Our upcoming release has a lot of improvements for mobile users. We're currently testing our release candidate, which you can find here: universalviewer-git-fork-jamesmisson-release-420-rc2-mnemoscene.vercel.app#?xywh=-2435%... Let us know if you spot any bugs!
Universal Viewer Examples
universalviewer-git-fork-jamesmisson-release-420-rc2-mnemoscene.vercel.app
April 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Our upcoming release has a lot of improvements for mobile users. We're currently testing our release candidate, which you can find here: universalviewer-git-fork-jamesmisson-release-420-rc2-mnemoscene.vercel.app#?xywh=-2435%... Let us know if you spot any bugs!
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Erin from our @britishlibrary.bsky.social @bldigischol.bsky.social Universal Viewer team shared an update on work to make it more inclusive and user friendly, improve visibility of IIIF collections, and provide image manipulation youtu.be/m3-cmfPfoK4?... #IIIF #UniversalViewer #UniversalPlayer
Community Call: Universal Viewer 4.1.0
The Universal Viewer team demoes their latest release, including: updates to make UV more inclusive and user friendly, improved visibility of IIIF collection...
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March 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Erin from our @britishlibrary.bsky.social @bldigischol.bsky.social Universal Viewer team shared an update on work to make it more inclusive and user friendly, improve visibility of IIIF collections, and provide image manipulation youtu.be/m3-cmfPfoK4?... #IIIF #UniversalViewer #UniversalPlayer
Join us tomorrow at the IIIF Community Call for a demo of the latest UV and to hear about our recent community sprints @iiif.bsky.social
Please save the date for our next Community Call, "Universal Viewer 4.1.0."
On 12 March at 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC, @universalviewer.io team members will demo the latest release.
Please join us using the Zoom on the IIIF Community Calendar: iiif.io/community.
On 12 March at 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC, @universalviewer.io team members will demo the latest release.
Please join us using the Zoom on the IIIF Community Calendar: iiif.io/community.
March 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Join us tomorrow at the IIIF Community Call for a demo of the latest UV and to hear about our recent community sprints @iiif.bsky.social
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Please save the date for our next Community Call, "Universal Viewer 4.1.0."
On 12 March at 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC, @universalviewer.io team members will demo the latest release.
Please join us using the Zoom on the IIIF Community Calendar: iiif.io/community.
On 12 March at 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC, @universalviewer.io team members will demo the latest release.
Please join us using the Zoom on the IIIF Community Calendar: iiif.io/community.
March 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Please save the date for our next Community Call, "Universal Viewer 4.1.0."
On 12 March at 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC, @universalviewer.io team members will demo the latest release.
Please join us using the Zoom on the IIIF Community Calendar: iiif.io/community.
On 12 March at 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC, @universalviewer.io team members will demo the latest release.
Please join us using the Zoom on the IIIF Community Calendar: iiif.io/community.
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🚀IMMARKUS 0.7.2🚀
Try the latest release of our semantic image annotation platform: immarkus.xmarkus.org
✨Highlights:
🔹 Enhanced entity relations & knowledge graph search
🔹 #IIIF support
Big thanks to @aboutgeo.bsky.social for making this happen! 👏
#IMMARKUS #IIIF #DigitalHumanities
Try the latest release of our semantic image annotation platform: immarkus.xmarkus.org
✨Highlights:
🔹 Enhanced entity relations & knowledge graph search
🔹 #IIIF support
Big thanks to @aboutgeo.bsky.social for making this happen! 👏
#IMMARKUS #IIIF #DigitalHumanities
February 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
🚀IMMARKUS 0.7.2🚀
Try the latest release of our semantic image annotation platform: immarkus.xmarkus.org
✨Highlights:
🔹 Enhanced entity relations & knowledge graph search
🔹 #IIIF support
Big thanks to @aboutgeo.bsky.social for making this happen! 👏
#IMMARKUS #IIIF #DigitalHumanities
Try the latest release of our semantic image annotation platform: immarkus.xmarkus.org
✨Highlights:
🔹 Enhanced entity relations & knowledge graph search
🔹 #IIIF support
Big thanks to @aboutgeo.bsky.social for making this happen! 👏
#IMMARKUS #IIIF #DigitalHumanities
Tomorrow we're embarking on our next Community Sprint, on the Universal Viewer's UX. This is a great opportunity for developers of any level to contribute to open source software in the cultural heritage world. For more info, check out our Slack channel: universalviewer.slack.com
Slack
universalviewer.slack.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Tomorrow we're embarking on our next Community Sprint, on the Universal Viewer's UX. This is a great opportunity for developers of any level to contribute to open source software in the cultural heritage world. For more info, check out our Slack channel: universalviewer.slack.com
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New post! 🧭 Navigating the IIIF Landscape: A Guide to Finding Images & Manifests. I gathered your community tips, hidden gems & helpful tools for discovering IIIF content. Thanks everyone who contributed! #IIIF #DigitalHumanities #liiive
liiive.now/blog/2025-02...
liiive.now/blog/2025-02...
Navigating the IIIF Landscape: A Guide to Finding Images & Manifests
Community picks, hidden gems, helpful tools, tips & tricks for finding IIIF content.
liiive.now
February 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
New post! 🧭 Navigating the IIIF Landscape: A Guide to Finding Images & Manifests. I gathered your community tips, hidden gems & helpful tools for discovering IIIF content. Thanks everyone who contributed! #IIIF #DigitalHumanities #liiive
liiive.now/blog/2025-02...
liiive.now/blog/2025-02...
Want to get involved in the next UV Community Sprint? From Tuesday 25 February until Thursday 13 March 2025 we will be focussing on user experience of the UV across all devices.
February 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Want to get involved in the next UV Community Sprint? From Tuesday 25 February until Thursday 13 March 2025 we will be focussing on user experience of the UV across all devices.
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Finding good #IIIF resources can take a bit of detective work. I’d love to build a community-powered guide to the best collections for #liiive users. Have go-to sites or repositories? Please share—I’d love to feature them in my next blog post! #DigitalHumanities
February 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Finding good #IIIF resources can take a bit of detective work. I’d love to build a community-powered guide to the best collections for #liiive users. Have go-to sites or repositories? Please share—I’d love to feature them in my next blog post! #DigitalHumanities
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While the main Spatial Heritage Review newsletter is on hiatus, I am pleased to share this guest post by @edsilv.com of Mnemoscene introducing the @iiif.bsky.social enabled exhibit.so storytelling platform!
🔗 nebulousflynn.substack.com/p/a-short-in...
#3D #GLAM3D #3DforCulture
🔗 nebulousflynn.substack.com/p/a-short-in...
#3D #GLAM3D #3DforCulture
February 10, 2025 at 8:44 AM
While the main Spatial Heritage Review newsletter is on hiatus, I am pleased to share this guest post by @edsilv.com of Mnemoscene introducing the @iiif.bsky.social enabled exhibit.so storytelling platform!
🔗 nebulousflynn.substack.com/p/a-short-in...
#3D #GLAM3D #3DforCulture
🔗 nebulousflynn.substack.com/p/a-short-in...
#3D #GLAM3D #3DforCulture
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Better late than never: I finally wrote a proper introduction to liiive! If you work with IIIF image collections and want to collaborate in real time, check it out. 👇 #IIIF #DigitalHumanities liiive.now/blog/2025-02...
Introducing liiive: Real-Time Collaboration for Exploring Cultural Heritage
Need to collaborate with others on a high-resolution image or document? Struggling with clunky screen-sharing tools? That's why I built liiive!
liiive.now
February 7, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Better late than never: I finally wrote a proper introduction to liiive! If you work with IIIF image collections and want to collaborate in real time, check it out. 👇 #IIIF #DigitalHumanities liiive.now/blog/2025-02...
🚀 Version 4.1.0 of Universal Viewer has arrived! 🎉 The UV community has been hard at work on new features and fixes to help you share your content with the world. Some highlights include...
Release v4.1.0 · UniversalViewer/universalviewer
What's Changed
Highlights:
Image manipulation controls (brightness/contrast/etc.) added to OpenSeadragon component (#1052)
New defaultToTreeIfCollection config setting (#1107)
New "extend thumbnai...
github.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
🚀 Version 4.1.0 of Universal Viewer has arrived! 🎉 The UV community has been hard at work on new features and fixes to help you share your content with the world. Some highlights include...