Maps For Museums
Major fine art galleries, museums as well as universities unopen to 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 powerfulness tell it is a criterion for creating interactive map tiles for images of documents, manuscripts, photographs as well as paintings.
One final result from this adoption of IIIF is that at that topographic point are hundreds of thousands of manuscripts, paintings as well as other documents which tin straight off last viewed equally 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 stance a manuscript or ikon equally a zoomable paradigm inwards a Leaflet map. You tin purpose the tool to explore whatsoever painting, manuscript or other paradigm shared yesteryear institutions unopen to the basis inwards the IIIF format.
Instead of using this Leaflet IIIF Viewer, made yesteryear the Center for Open Data inwards the Humanities, yous could brand your own. Leaflet-IIIF is a elementary to purpose plug-in for creating a Leaflet based browser for IIIF manifests or images shared using the IIIF Image API. If yous purpose this Leaflet plug-in yous tin as well as hence brand interactive maps from tens of thousands of manuscripts, paintings as well as other images held yesteryear some of the best known global fine art galleries, museums as well as universities. For instance Princeton University are using the plug-in to exhibit a Plan of Versailles equally an interactive Leaflet map.
