Universal Viewer

"Radically inclusive software development for digital cultural heritage" a discussion around @universalviewer.io | @miaout.bsky.social , Saira Akhter, James Misson (speakers); Lanie Okorodudu, Erin Burnand

"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

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...

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!

🛠️ And lots of bug fixes! Check out the release notes for a full log: github.com/UniversalVie...

Thanks to all our contributors who make this open source software possible. And to all future contributors: keep an eye out for opportunities to get involved!

🔗 Big improvements to sharing and embedding functions will help you deploy UV in any context

🆘 A new help button directs users to a link of your choosing, settable in the config.

🚀 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.

Universal Viewer Slack Channel Invite Request Form Please add your email address below, and you should receive an invite to the Universal Viewer Slack channel.

Feedback always welcome! Join our Slack channel to hear the latest updates and to get involved in the conversation docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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!

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...

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!

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

Universal Viewer Slack Channel Invite Request Form Please add your email address below, and you should receive an invite to the Universal Viewer Slack channel.

You don't have to be a developer to contribute. We're also looking for a comms officer, accessibility testers, QA testers, technical writers, and translators. Join our Slack channel for more information, or get in touch with any questions! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

That means we'll be:
🛠️ Developing tools and processes to improve UV configuration
📈 Improving documentation around UV's analytics features
🔗Updating dependencies
❓Helping you solve issues relevant to your use case

Developer Experience. Have you run into frustrations while deploying or developing UV? We'll be working together to tackle these issues head-on, whether it's build failures, clunky processes, or frustrating dev tools.

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...

You can find a list of the upcoming changes here: github.com/UniversalVie...

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!

The Universal Viewer team demoes their latest release, including: updates to make UV more inclusive and user friendly, improved visibility of IIIF collection... Community Call: Universal Viewer 4.1.0

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

IIIF Community Call: Universal Viewer 4.1.0. Wednesday March 12, 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC.

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.

🚀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

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

Navigating the IIIF Landscape: A Guide to Finding Images & Manifests Community picks, hidden gems, helpful tools, tips & tricks for finding IIIF content.

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...

Join our Slack channel to learn more: universalviewer.slack.com

If you or your institution use the UV, you probably get feedback from your stakeholders on how they use the interface or you may have frustrations on how the UV displays on portable devices. The Community Sprint is a chance to contribute to design, development or testing!

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.

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

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

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!

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...

And more! Thanks to all our developers, testers, managers, librarians, and users who make Universal Viewer possible. If you'd like to get involved, stay tuned for news about our next community sprint.

👂⌨️ Our community Accessibility Sprint brought together 18 contributors from 6 institutions across the globe. Together, we improved keyboard navigation and screen reader labels, so the Universal Viewer can be truly universal 🌎

🐛 Dozens of dependency updates, bug fixes, and UI tweaks improve the UV experience for users and developers