# Manchester Digital Collections — IIIF Image API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-manchester/iiif-image-api/  
**Provider:** University of Manchester — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-manchester/  
**Base URL:** https://image.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/iiif  
**Documentation:** https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/

Manchester Digital Collections — IIIF Image API is one of 5 APIs that [University of Manchester](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-manchester/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition. Tagged areas include IIIF, Image, Tiles, Library, and Digital Collections. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and 1 JSON Schema.

IIIF Image API 2.0 at compliance level 1, serving regions, scaled derivatives, rotations and quality variants of the Library's digitised page images. Self-describes through info.json: formats [jpg]; qualities [native, color, gray, bitonal]; supports regionByPct, regionSquare, sizeByForcedWh, sizeByWh, sizeAboveFull, rotationBy90s and mirroring; maxWidth and maxHeight 2000; 256x256 tiles at scale factors 1-32. Verified live on 2026-08-19 with both a simple and a compound request, plus a negative probe returning a genuine 404. Host resolves to 130.88.101.75, adjacent to the Presentation API host in the University's own address space.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-manchester/refs/heads/main/openapi/university-of-manchester-iiif-image-api-openapi.yml
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-manchester/refs/heads/main/json-schema/university-of-manchester-iiif-image-info-schema.json
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-manchester/refs/heads/main/examples/university-of-manchester-iiif-image-info-example.json
- **Documentation** — https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/about/
- **TermsOfService** — https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/terms/

## Other University of Manchester APIs (4)

- [Manchester Digital Collections — IIIF Presentation API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-manchester/iiif-presentation-api/)
- [Shibboleth SAML Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-manchester/shibboleth-saml-idp/)
- [Elsevier Pure CRIS tenancy (REST + OAI-PMH)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-manchester/pure-cris-tenancy/)
- [Figshare research data repository tenancy](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-manchester/figshare-tenancy/)

## Tags

IIIF, Image, Tiles, Library, Digital Collections, Open Access

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