#UniversalViewer
Curious about the @universalviewer.io or @iiif.bsky.social after our #DH2025 session in SP-32: Digital Tools and Techniques for Cultural Heritage and History? Try it out universalviewer.io or get involved github.com/universalvie...
GitHub - UniversalViewer/universalviewer: A community-developed open source project on a mission to help you share your 📚📜📰📽️📻🗿 with the 🌎
A community-developed open source project on a mission to help you share your 📚📜📰📽️📻🗿 with the 🌎 - UniversalViewer/universalviewer
github.com
July 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This is from his speech to the August 1928 Brussels meeting of the Labour and Socialist International.

hdl.handle.net/10622/ARCH01...
UniversalViewer
hdl.handle.net
September 19, 2026 at 9:05 PM
It is amazing, by the way, just how much material has been digitized by the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam

hdl.handle.net/10622/ARCH01...
UniversalViewer
hdl.handle.net
September 17, 2026 at 5:38 AM
The Universal Viewer contributor community is thriving! Check out the release candidate for UV 4.1.0 that incorporates lots of accessibility fixes https://github.com/UniversalViewer/universalviewer/pull/1248 #IIIF #UniversalViewer #FOSS
Release Candidate: 4.1.0-rc1 by demiankatz · Pull Request #1248 · UniversalViewer/universalviewer
This PR contains the first release candidate for Universal Viewer 4.1.0. Please test and provide feedback! Significant changes/new features: Image manipulation controls (brightness/contrast/etc.) ...
github.com
December 12, 2024 at 12:22 PM
🚀 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...
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...
github.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
'The Swedish National Archives makes one million handwritten documents searchable' riksarkivet.se/inlagg/riksa... - the Universal Viewer plus AI text transcription!

Congratulations to everyone at the Riksarkivet who worked so hard on this! #AI4LAM #UniversalViewer
Riksarkivet gör en miljon handskrivna dokument sökbara
I ett banbrytande steg mot att göra historisk information i arkiven mer tillgänglig har Riksarkivet gjort över en miljon handskrivna dokument till sökbar text med hjälp av artificiell intelligens.
riksarkivet.se
April 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
🚀 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.
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 ...
github.com
June 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The Swedish National Archives fork of #iiif enabled @universalviewer with better support for #annotations, expect to see elements of this included in future releases of the community version
June 2, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Thank you @scottjenson.bsky.social for your pro bono work on #UniversalViewer. Like the suggested new look in the video, how we present the digital object does not have to mirror the way we use the analogue object. #UX
November 22, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Improving the usability of open source software projects isn't easy. Learn how we're 'Collaborating to improve usability on the Universal Viewer project' with @scottjenson.bsky.social blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho...

#IIIF #UniversalViewer #OSS #UX #usability
Collaborating to improve usability: the Universal Viewer project
Open source software is a valuable alternative to commercial software, but its decentralised nature often leads to less than polished user interfaces. This has also been the case for the Universal Vie...
blogs.bl.uk
November 22, 2024 at 1:06 PM
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
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...
youtu.be
March 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The IIIF Universal Viewer community is on fire - a new release a few days ago, and look at all those contributors! It's especially exciting to see new contributors
Release v4.3.0 · GitHub github.com/UniversalVie...
Release v4.3.0 · UniversalViewer/universalviewer
What's Changed Highlights of changes/additions: Outcomes from the Developer Experience sprint: New interactive configuration editor on the example index page Several external components reintegra...
github.com
April 30, 2026 at 7:20 PM
And there are release notes! github.com/UniversalVie... I can't tell you how happy that makes me.

And check out how many new contributors there are - the UV community is on a roll!
January 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
November 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Heute ist #TagDerHandschrift!

Als #Marx sich auf eine Stelle bei der Eisenbahn bewarb, nicht genommen wurde und stattdessen #DasKapital schrieb.
(Marx an Ludwig Kugelmann, 28. Dez. 1862, MEW Bd. 30, S. 640)
January 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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...
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!
github.com
May 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Collaborating to improve usability on the Universal Viewer project - Digital scholarship blog shar.es/agC1ru #universalviewer #iiif
shar.es
November 22, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Join us for the 2025 Universal Viewer (UV) Annual Conference held online Tues 18 November 2025 14:00-18:00 UTC/GMT. Find out more and book your place: uvcon.io #universalviewer #iiif @iiif.bsky.social @universalviewer.io

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/universal-...
Universal Viewer (UV) Annual Conference 2025
This online event will serve as an interactive forum for the community to come together, share knowledge, and shape the future of the UV.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
🛠️ 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!
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 ...
github.com
June 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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!
Universal Viewer Examples
universalviewer-git-fork-jamesmisson-release-420-rc2-mnemoscene.vercel.app
April 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM