Mirador and IIIF Ecosystems

The Mirador Multi-User (MMU) environment is builds on proven, industry-standard components to deliver a stable and extensible IIIF experience.

Powered by Mirador 4, the trusted open-source IIIF viewer used by leading museums and libraries worldwide, MMU extends its capabilities with secure multi-user collaboration, synchronized annotations, and media interoperability. By leveraging the IIIF framework and annotation plugins (MAE / MAEV), MMU combines reliability, openness, and modern UX to create a professional platform for exploring, comparing, and enriching digital collections at scale.

Mirador, a fully Featured IIIF Viewer

Open-source, web based, multi-window image viewing platform with the ability to zoom, display, compare and annotate images from around the world.

Classic Image Viewer Features

  • Compare images
  • Zoom and pan
  • Book, gallery, and scroll views

IIIF API Support

  • v2 and v3 Image and Presentation
  • Image Level 0
  • Audio and Video support through Presentation v3
  • IIIF Collection viewing and navigation

Annotations

  • Annotation creation available via plugin
  • Supports viewing both OpenAnnotation and W3C Web Annotation standards
Rich Metadata display
  • Item and canvas level metadata
  • Table of contents
  • Multiple sequences
projectmirador.org

We develop our custom Mirador based on the latest Mirador 4 version to support annotation on video and have full integration with our custom annotation plugins.

Mirador Video demo
Mirador Video Github Repo

Annotation editor plugins

The old annotation plugin (mirdor-annotations) was not compatible with Mirador 4, so we forked it to assure compatibility and add new functionality. 

We maintains two versions of the plugins.

Mirador Annotation Editor (MAE)

  • Annotation on image only
  • Apache 2 Licence
  • Mirador 4 compatible 
MAE plugin demo
Github Repo

Mirador Annotation Editor Video (MAEV)

  • Annotation on image and video
  • GPL3 Licence
  • Mirador 4 compatible 
MAEV plugin demo
Github Repo

IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework)

IIIF is a set of open standards for delivering high-quality, attributed digital objects online at scale. It’s also an international community developing and implementing the IIIF APIs. IIIF is backed by a consortium of leading cultural institutions.

  • Gain richer access to the world’s image and audio/visual files

  • IIIF provides benefits to collection-hosting institutions and end users alike.

  • Six API to deliver endless possibilities.

https://iiif.io/