IIIF Solutions
for UK Collections
High-performance image servers, viewers, and annotation tools. Make your digitised collections globally accessible.
Get a QuoteIIIF Infrastructure
The International Image Interoperability Framework is the standard for sharing and viewing digitised collections online. Used by the British Library, Bodleian, National Library of Scotland, and hundreds of UK institutions. Our active IIIF infrastructure includes passionistarchives.co.uk.
Image Servers
Cantaloupe
High-performance, dynamic IIIF image server. Serves deep zoom images from TIFF, JPEG2000, and other formats. Used in production by major national libraries and archives worldwide.
IIPImage
Ultra-fast, open-source image streaming server. Optimised for very large TIFF and JPEG2000 files. Ideal for institutions with large-format map or photographic collections.
Viewers
Embed your collections in your website, catalogue, or research portal.
Mirador
Advanced multi-window IIIF viewer. Enables side-by-side comparison of manuscripts, maps, and photographs. Widely used for scholarly research and public exhibitions.
Universal Viewer
Community-built viewer for images, books, audio, video, 3D objects, and PDFs — all in one interface. The default viewer for many UK institutional repositories.
Tify
Slim, fast IIIF document viewer optimised for manuscripts and printed books. Clean interface ideal for public-facing access to digitised collections.
Clover IIIF
Performant, lightweight viewer for audio and video IIIF manifests. Ideal for oral history collections, film archives, and broadcast media.
Exhibitions & Storytelling
Exhibit
Create beautiful, guided interactive exhibitions using your IIIF resources. No coding required — ideal for outreach, education, and anniversary exhibitions.
Storiiies
A storytelling platform for guiding users through the details of high-resolution images. Used by museums and archives for object-led narratives.
Canopy
Static site generator that builds browsable, searchable websites directly from your IIIF collections. Low cost, high performance, no database required.
Annotation Tools
Recogito
Semantic annotation for texts and images. Link your transcriptions to maps, gazetteers, and authority records. Used by researchers across UK and European universities.
Annotot
Lightweight IIIF annotation server. Store and retrieve W3C Web Annotations on your own infrastructure — no third-party dependency.
SAS — Simple Annotation Server
Create, manage, and store IIIF annotations with ease. Integrates with Mirador for a complete annotation workflow.
Audio & Video
Avalon Media System
Open-source platform for managing and providing access to large collections of digital audio and video. Used by university libraries and media archives.
Annona
Powerful storytelling viewer for IIIF. Create immersive narratives combining audio, video, and image resources from your collections.
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