/universalviewer

The Universal Viewer is an open source project to enable cultural heritage institutions to present their digital artifacts in an IIIF-compliant and highly customisable user interface.

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Universal Viewer

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npm install universalviewer

or

bower install uv

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Contributors

Wellcome Library British Library National Library of Wales Villanova University, Falvey Memorial Library Riksarkivet

About

The Universal Viewer is an open source project to enable cultural heritage institutions to present their digital artifacts in an IIIF-compliant and highly customisable user interface.

Features:

  • OpenSeadragon image zooming using the IIIF image API.
  • YouTube-style embedding with deep links to specific pages/zoom regions.
  • Themable, fork the UV theme on github to create your own.
  • Highly configurable and extensible.
  • Supports "IxIF" out of the box, allowing 3D, audio, video, and pdf viewing experiences.
  • Supports search and autocomplete service integration with overlayed search results.
  • Internationalised UI using transifex.com (currently supports English and Welsh. Volunteers for more translations gratefully accepted!)

Stable Builds

See the GitHub releases page.

Development

Please see the wiki for instructions on how to customise the viewer for your own projects.

First Time Setup

All command-line operations for building the UV are scripted using Grunt which is based on Node.js. To get set up:

  1. Install Node.js, if you haven't already

  2. Install the grunt command line interface (if you haven't already); on the command line, run:

     npm install -g grunt-cli

  3. Install bower (if you haven't already)

     npm install -g bower

  4. Clone the universalviewer repository and sub modules:

     git clone git@github.com:UniversalViewer/universalviewer.git --recursive

  5. On the command line, go in to the universalviewer folder

  6. Run

     npm install
 bower install
 grunt sync

Debug Builds

To build the debug version of the viewer, just run (on the command line, in the universalviewer folder):

grunt

This will compile the .less files into .css and .ts files into .js with source maps to aid in debugging.

Distribution Builds

To build the distribution version of the UV, just run (on the command line, in the universalviewer folder):

grunt build

A versioned uv-major.minor.patch folder along with compressed .zip and .tar files will appear in the /dist folder. Use these in your website, or alternatively use:

bower install uv --save

which will download the distribution folder to bower_components.

See https://github.com/UniversalViewer/demo-site for examples.

Examples

To view the examples run:

grunt serve

License

The Universal Viewer is released under the MIT license.