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@universalviewer.io
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The Universal Viewer is a community-developed open source project on a mission to help you share your 📚 📜 📰 📽️ 📻 🗿 with the 🌎 universalviewer.io

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Universal Viewer @universalviewer.io · 22/06/2026
@britishlibrary.bsky.social UV 4.4 is here! This release includes an update to OpenSeadragon 6, and support for IIIF Choice, adding a drop down menu to enable users to switch between different images available for the same canvas (e.g. infrared, ultraviolet). Let us know what you think!
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Universal Viewer @universalviewer.io · 15/01/2026
Our third website development sprint kicked off yesterday 🚀There are lots of opportunities to get involved, regardless of technical skill, and are a great way to gain experience in the UV, meet the community and gain experience of agile working. See our Slack channel for more info.
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Universal Viewer @universalviewer.io · 11/12/2025
We’ve hit the final day of our second Web Dev sprint! With just a few hours to go, all tasks are either completed or in progress🤩 Will we wrap everything up by the end of the sprint?👀 Join us at our stakeholder review today at 16:00 (GMT) to find out🚀 llyfrgell-cymru.zoom.us/j/8563203181...
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Ed Silverton @edsilv.com · 06/12/2025
At the House of Commons on Thursday evening for the Open UK awards. @universalviewer.io got runner up in the Community Category. An amazing experience and lovely to meet the other nominees.
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Universal Viewer @universalviewer.io · 26/11/2025
We’re continuing to improve our website together as a community! 🚀 Our 2nd WEB DEV sprint kicked off yesterday. Check out our Miro for the MVP and our community board to see what we’re working on 💫 miro.com/app/board/uX... github.com/orgs/Univers...
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OpenUK @openuk.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Recognising the Power of Community Collaboration, the @universalviewer.io project (universalviewer.io) is shortlisted in the 6th Annual OpenUK Awards Community category sponsored by @Arm, taking place on 4th December at the House of Commons, thanks to Dame Chi Onwurah for hosting. #openukawards
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Universal Viewer @universalviewer.io · 13/11/2025
We're looking forward to seeing you at UVCON next week! Join us for a half-day of presentations and conversation about the past, present and future of the Universal Viewer. Here's a peek at the schedule
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OpenUK @openuk.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
OpenUK Awards 25 Community Category sponsored by Arm, Shortlist is live, congratulations to the shortlisted nominees: Andy Piper, @universalviewer.io (universalviewer.io), and Daniel Gale 🍾🥂🏆 #openukawards #opensource #community
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Universal Viewer @universalviewer.io · 04/11/2025
We're very excited to have been shortlisted for an OpenUK award, in recognition of our amazing community of developers, managers, testers, curators, and translators. See you at the Oscars of Open Source! #openukawards @openuk.bsky.social
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Universal Viewer @universalviewer.io · 22/10/2025
We want YOU for our next UV Community Project! The Project runs from Tuesday 28 October 2025 until Thursday 19 February 2026 and will be focussing on improving the UV Community website. No coding experience necessary.
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Martin R. Kalfatovic @udcmrk.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
"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
"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
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Universal Viewer @universalviewer.io · 11/07/2025
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!
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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...
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Universal Viewer @universalviewer.io · 12/06/2025
🚀 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.
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Release v4.2.0 · UniversalViewer/universalviewer
Highlights Side panels accessible in mobile view #1343 Full footer options in mobile view #1343 Path to uv.html can now be set with options.embedTemplate by @crhallberg in #1254 Add console.error ...
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Universal Viewer @universalviewer.io · 15/05/2025
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...
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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!
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British Online Archives (BOA) @boapublishing.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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
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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!
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Universal Viewer @universalviewer.io · 29/04/2025
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...
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Universal Viewer @universalviewer.io · 03/04/2025
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!
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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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
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Community Call: Universal Viewer 4.1.0
The Universal Viewer team demoes their latest release, including: updates to make UV more inclusive and user friendly, improved visibility of IIIF collection...
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Universal Viewer @universalviewer.io · 11/03/2025
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
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IIIF Consortium @iiif.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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.
IIIF Community Call: Universal Viewer 4.1.0. Wednesday March 12, 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC.
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Infrastructure Lives @infralives.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
🚀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
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Universal Viewer @universalviewer.io · 24/02/2025
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
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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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...
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Navigating the IIIF Landscape: A Guide to Finding Images & Manifests
Community picks, hidden gems, helpful tools, tips & tricks for finding IIIF content.
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Universal Viewer @universalviewer.io · 13/02/2025
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.
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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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
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Thomas Flynn @nebulousflynn.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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
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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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...
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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!
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Universal Viewer @universalviewer.io · 23/01/2025
🚀 Version 4.1.0 of Universal Viewer has arrived! 🎉 The UV community has been hard at work on new features and fixes to help you share your content with the world. Some highlights include...
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Release v4.1.0 · UniversalViewer/universalviewer
What's Changed Highlights: Image manipulation controls (brightness/contrast/etc.) added to OpenSeadragon component (#1052) New defaultToTreeIfCollection config setting (#1107) New "extend thumbnai...
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