You can already display on your blog/website any image that you find on the web. To find the URL of the image you like, right-click on the image. Then, the HTML code for your blog/website is : <img src=”URLofTheImageYouLike”>
But with IIIF (pronounced triple-eye-eff) images, you can go further: you can crop and resize the image (without downloading it), discover details and show it in your personal way.
Here are some rich IIIF image collections.
- Basel, Museum der Kulturen: nearly 9,000 IIIF images of African artworks: https://parc-portal.org/en/search?facets=fct_institution%7EMuseum+der+Kulturen+Basel&facets=hidden_digitized%7Eja
among 30,000 IIIF images related to Africa, from five Basel heritage institutions (Basler Afrika Bibliographien ; Mission 21 ; Museum der Kulturen Basel ; Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute ; University of Basel, Centre for African Studies), on the Portal for African Research Collections (PARC): https://parc-portal.org/en/search?facets=hidden_digitized%7Eja
To crop an image, click on the blue button “Show in viewer”, and you will see the cropping tool (“Activate selection of an image region”).
Check the copyright: “Basic information -> Source”, or “Additional information -> Link Original Location”. If there is no copyright notice, give any useful information about the image’s origin. - Germany, Collections from Colonial Contexts: thousands of IIIF images of African artworks: https://ccc.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/en/search
- Freiburg im Breisgau, Ethnological collection of the Museum Natur und Mensch: nearly 1,300 IIIF images of African objects:
https://onlinesammlung.freiburg.de/de/search?term=&filter[museum][0]=Ethnologische%20Sammlung%20des%20Museum%20Natur%20und%20Mensch&filter[ort][0]=Afrika&sort=relevanz - Chicago, Art Institute: nearly 600 IIIF images of African artworks, available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) : https://www.artic.edu/collection?style_ids=Arts%20of%20Africa
To get the link to the croppable image: on the page of an image that you like, display the source code (CTRL+U), look in the code for the word “/full” (CTRL+F). Copy the part of the URL before “/full”. THIS is the magic URL that you can then paste (without quotes) at the end of this URL, in the browser address bar: https://jbhoward-dublin.github.io/IIIF-imageManipulation/index.html?imageID= - Cleveland Museum of Art: nearly 500 IIIF images of African artworks, available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0): https://archive.org/details/clevelandart?query=%22african+art%22
Replace: archive.org/details by: iiif.archivelab.org/iiif Example: transform https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1971.294-face-mask into https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/clevelandart-1971.294-face-mask
THIS is the magic URL that you can then paste at the end of this URL, in the browser address bar: https://jbhoward-dublin.github.io/IIIF-imageManipulation/index.html?imageID= - Indianapolis Museum of Art: nearly 100 IIIF images of African artworks that are “Public Domain under the laws of the United States”: https://collections.discovernewfields.org/search?showOnly=has_images&showOnly=is_public_domain&department.keyword=African+Art.
To get the link to the croppable image: on the page of an image that you like, display the source code (CTRL+U), look in the code for the word “/full” (CTRL+F). Copy the part of the URL before “/full”. THIS is the magic URL that you can then paste (without quotes) at the end of this URL, in the browser address bar: https://jbhoward-dublin.github.io/IIIF-imageManipulation/index.html?imageID=
GENERAL RESOURCES
- Washington, Smithsonian Institution: nearly 5 million Open Access IIIF images: https://www.si.edu/search/collection-images?edan_fq%5B0%5D=media_usage%3ACC0
They are in the public domain (free of copyright restrictions). You can copy, modify, and distribute all these images without contacting the Smithsonian.
To get the link to the croppable image: click on the IIIF logo below the image you like, click on “View manifest”, read the **LAST** line of code and copy the URL that you see there (the URL between the quotes). You can then paste it at the end of this URL, in the browser address bar: https://jbhoward-dublin.github.io/IIIF-imageManipulation/index.html?imageID= - San Francisco, Internet Archive: nearly 5 million Open Access (?) IIIF images: https://archive.org/details/image
Replace: archive.org/details by: iiif.archivelab.org/iiif Example: transform https://archive.org/details/mma_power_figure_nkisi_nkondi_mangaaka_320053 into https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/mma_power_figure_nkisi_nkondi_mangaaka_320053
THIS is the magic URL that you can then paste at the end of this URL, in the browser address bar: https://jbhoward-dublin.github.io/IIIF-imageManipulation/index.html?imageID=
– Check copyright: the artwork in this example is open access from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/320053. So you can freely copy, modify and distribute this image, even for commercial purposes.
– If your custom cropped image doesn’t generate an image in a LinkedIn post (“Loading preview” fails), check it on https://www.linkedin.com/post-inspector/, then try to post it again. - Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France: nearly 500,000 Public Domain IIIF images: https://gallica.bnf.fr… VERY LONG SEARCH URL
The cropping tool is available on the right of the image, it’s the icon with 3 dots connected to each other: “Sharing and sending by e-mail”, then click on “Embed”, then “Part of image”.
If it doesn’t work, or if the image needs rotation: copy the URL from the address bar, clean its end to let only “f” followed by a number (if there is no “f” at the end, add “/f1”), and insert iiif/ before ark. Example: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8436035z/f1.item.r=congo.zoom becomes https://gallica.bnf.fr/iiif/ark:/12148/btv1b8436035z/f1
THIS is the magic URL that you can then paste at the end of this URL, in the browser address bar: https://jbhoward-dublin.github.io/IIIF-imageManipulation/index.html?imageID=
Rotated 90°, you get: https://gallica.bnf.fr/iiif/ark:/12148/btv1b8436035z/f1/163,389,2107,882/1280,/90/native.jpg - New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art: nearly 150,000 IIIF images: https://archive.org/details/metropolitanmuseumofart-gallery?sort=title
Replace: archive.org/details by: iiif.archivelab.org/iiif Example: transform https://archive.org/details/mma_queen_mother_pendant_mask_iyoba_318622 into https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/mma_queen_mother_pendant_mask_iyoba_318622
THIS is the magic URL that you can then paste at the end of this URL, in the browser address bar: https://jbhoward-dublin.github.io/IIIF-imageManipulation/index.html?imageID=
To check copyright, copy the “Accession_number” and paste it to search that art work in: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search? - London, Wellcome Collection: nearly 120,000 Public Domain or Creative Commons IIIF images: https://wellcomecollection.org/search/images?locations.license=pdm%2Ccc-by%2Ccc-by-nc%2Ccc-0%2Ccc-by-nc-nd%2Cpdm%2Ccc-by%2Ccc-by-nc
To get the link to the croppable image: on the page of an image that you like, display the source code (CTRL+U), look in the code for the word “/full” (CTRL+F). Copy the part of the URL before “/full”. THIS is the magic URL that you can then paste (without quotes) at the end of this URL, in the browser address bar: https://jbhoward-dublin.github.io/IIIF-imageManipulation/index.html?imageID= - Washington, Library of Congress: nearly 50,000 Public Domain (?) IIIF images: https://www.loc.gov/photos/?q=iiif and nearly 14,000 images from the former UNESCO website “World digital library”: https://www.loc.gov/collections/world-digital-library/?fa=original-format:photo,+print,+drawing.
Example: German map of Central Africa in 1914: https://tile.loc.gov/image-services/iiif/service:gdc:gdcwdl:wd:l_:15:66:5:wdl_15665:am005045/3632,6504,4376,3640/full/0/default.jpg (from: https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668660/)
To get the link to the croppable image: on the page of an image that you like, display the source code (CTRL+U), look in the code for the word “/full” (CTRL+F). Copy the part of the URL before “/full”. THIS is the magic URL that you can then paste (without quotes) at the end of this URL, in the browser address bar: https://jbhoward-dublin.github.io/IIIF-imageManipulation/index.html?imageID=
If it doesn’t work (example: https://www.loc.gov/item/2016797274/), try another method: on the page of an image that you like, display the source code (CTRL+U), look in the code for the word “manifest” (CTRL+F). Copy the URL of the manifest and paste it (without quotes) at the end of this URL, in the browser address bar: http://codh.rois.ac.jp/software/iiif-curation-viewer/demo/?manifest=
Move your cursor over the grey background and a small black square will appear in the top right corner. Click on this square to “Draw a rectangle”. - New Haven, Yale University Library: nearly 45,000 IIIF images: https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog?f%5Bformat%5D%5B%5D=still+image&f%5Bvisibility_ssi%5D%5B%5D=Public
OTHER IIIF IMAGES FROM AFRICA (not artworks in museums)
- Frankfurt-am-Main, Koloniales Bildarchiv (University Library): nearly 70,000 IIIF images, mostly related to Africa: https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/kolonialesbildarchiv/nav/index/all?max=100&s=date. Copy the “IIIF Manifest” link and paste it at the end of this URL, in the browser address bar: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/index.php?title=Show:IIIF/Mirador&manifest=
If you can’t see the cropping tool on the right, below the words “search CODECS…”, just click on the cross at the end to “Close the window”, then click on the left on “+ START HERE”, click on your image, and the cropping tool reappears.
Check carefully for copyright. If there is no copyright notice, all useful bibliographic metadata must be cited. - See also : E-Resources in ‘African Studies’ Images, by the Penn Libraries (University of Pennsylvania).
