University of British Columbia

UBC Library Open Collections IIIF Presentation API

IIIF Presentation manifests for Open Collections items, served from UBC Library's own host. Verified live 2026-08-19: a 10,560-byte JSON manifest returned for an item in the UBC Archives Photograph Collection, with IRI-annotated Dublin Core, EDM and DPLA metadata. UBC publishes no OpenAPI for this surface and none is invented here — the contract is the IIIF Presentation specification itself.

GitHub

Documentation

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Documentation
https://open.library.ubc.ca/docs

Other Resources

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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ubc/refs/heads/main/conformance/ubc-domain-standards-conformance.yml

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: ubc:open-collections-iiif
name: UBC Library Open Collections IIIF Presentation API
x-operator: institution
description: 'IIIF Presentation manifests for Open Collections items, served from UBC Library''s own host.
  Verified live 2026-08-19: a 10,560-byte JSON manifest returned for an item in the UBC Archives Photograph
  Collection, with IRI-annotated Dublin Core, EDM and DPLA metadata. UBC publishes no OpenAPI for this
  surface and none is invented here — the contract is the IIIF Presentation specification itself.'
humanURL: https://open.library.ubc.ca/docs
baseURL: https://iiif.library.ubc.ca
tags:
- Library
- IIIF
- Digital Collections
- Image
tags_raw:
- Library
- IIIF
- Digital Collections
- Images
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://open.library.ubc.ca/docs
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/ubc-domain-standards-conformance.yml