# UBC Library Open Collections IIIF Presentation API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/ubc/open-collections-iiif/  
**Provider:** University of British Columbia — https://apis.io/providers/ubc/  
**Base URL:** https://iiif.library.ubc.ca  
**Documentation:** https://open.library.ubc.ca/docs

UBC Library Open Collections IIIF Presentation API is one of 7 APIs that [University of British Columbia](https://apis.io/providers/ubc/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Library, IIIF, Digital Collections, and Image. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://open.library.ubc.ca/docs
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ubc/refs/heads/main/conformance/ubc-domain-standards-conformance.yml

## Other University of British Columbia APIs (6)

- [UBC Library Open Collections API](https://apis.io/apis/ubc/open-collections/)
- [UBC Library Abacus Dataverse API](https://apis.io/apis/ubc/abacus-dataverse/)
- [Abacus OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting Endpoint](https://apis.io/apis/ubc/abacus-oai-pmh/)
- [UBC Shibboleth Identity Provider Metadata](https://apis.io/apis/ubc/shibboleth-idp/)
- [UBC Integration Enablement Centre API Gateway](https://apis.io/apis/ubc/iec-api-gateway/)
- [UBC IT Service Status API](https://apis.io/apis/ubc/it-status/)

## Tags

Library, IIIF, Digital Collections, Image

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