University of Manchester Presentation API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: University of Manchester Digital Collections — IIIF Presentation API
  version: '2.1'
  summary: Institution-operated IIIF Presentation API 2.1 over the John Rylands Library digitised collections.
  description: 'Manchester Digital Collections publishes the University of Manchester Library''s digitised manuscripts, archives and rare books as IIIF Presentation API 2.1 documents. Manifests and collections are served as JSON from the University''s own host and its own address space (www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk resolves to 130.88.101.74, inside the University''s JANET allocation), not from a vendor CNAME, and every manifest carries the attribution "Provided by The University of Manchester ... © University of Manchester Library".

    This is one of the few genuinely institution-operated machine-readable surfaces the University runs. It is distinct from the Elsevier Pure CRIS and the Figshare repository, both of which are tenant relationships on vendor platforms and are recorded in apis.yml as such.

    The specification implemented here is the IIIF Presentation API 2.1, authored by the IIIF Consortium. This document describes the University''s deployment of it — the paths, identifiers and response shapes actually observed on the live service — and does not restate the standard.'
  contact:
    name: The University of Manchester Library
    url: https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/about/
  license:
    name: See per-manifest attribution and terms
    url: https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/terms/
  termsOfService: https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/terms/
servers:
- url: https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk
  description: Manchester Digital Collections (University of Manchester Library)
tags:
- name: presentation
  description: IIIF Presentation API 2.1 manifests and collections.
paths:
  /iiif/{documentId}:
    get:
      tags:
      - presentation
      operationId: getManifest
      summary: Retrieve a IIIF Presentation 2.1 manifest
      description: Returns the sc:Manifest for one digitised item. Verified live on 2026-08-19 against MS-LATIN-00006 ("Petrus Lombardus Super Psalmos (Latin MS 6)"), which returned 200 with a 378 KB manifest containing a single sequence of 398 canvases. Each canvas image resource carries a IIIF Image API 2 service pointing at image.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk.
      parameters:
      - name: documentId
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Collection-scoped document identifier, e.g. MS-LATIN-00006.
        schema:
          type: string
          pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9-]+$
          examples:
          - MS-LATIN-00006
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A IIIF Presentation 2.1 manifest.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Manifest'
              examples:
                msLatin6:
                  summary: Latin MS 6 (truncated)
                  externalValue: examples/university-of-manchester-iiif-manifest-example.json
        '404':
          description: No such document. Verified with a negative probe against /iiif/NOT-A-REAL-ID-12345, which returned a genuine 404 rather than a soft-404 body.
          content:
            text/html:
              schema:
                type: string
  /iiif/collection/{collectionId}:
    get:
      tags:
      - presentation
      operationId: getCollection
      summary: Retrieve a IIIF Presentation 2.1 collection
      description: Returns the sc:Collection listing every manifest in one named collection. Verified live on 2026-08-19 against `latin`, which returned 200 with "Latin Manuscripts" and 61 manifest references. Collection identifiers are the slugs listed at /collections/ — arabic, bibleillustrations, chinese, cunard, dante, hebrew, latin, maps, maryhamilton and others.
      parameters:
      - name: collectionId
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Collection slug as published at /collections/.
        schema:
          type: string
          pattern: ^[a-z0-9-]+$
          examples:
          - latin
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A IIIF Presentation 2.1 collection.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Collection'
        '404':
          description: No such collection.
          content:
            text/html:
              schema:
                type: string
components:
  schemas:
    Manifest:
      type: object
      description: IIIF Presentation API 2.1 sc:Manifest, as returned by this deployment.
      required:
      - '@context'
      - '@id'
      - '@type'
      properties:
        '@context':
          type: string
          const: http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json
        '@id':
          type: string
          format: uri
        '@type':
          type: string
          const: sc:Manifest
        label:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable title of the digitised item.
        attribution:
          type: string
          description: Rights attribution string. On this deployment it always names the University of Manchester and the University of Manchester Library.
        logo:
          type: string
          format: uri
        metadata:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              label:
                type: string
              value:
                type: string
        sequences:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Sequence'
    ImageService:
      type: object
      description: Reference to the companion IIIF Image API 2 service, described in openapi/university-of-manchester-iiif-image-api-openapi.yml.
      properties:
        '@context':
          type: string
          const: http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json
        '@id':
          type: string
          format: uri
        profile:
          type: string
          const: http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level1.json
    Canvas:
      type: object
      properties:
        '@id':
          type: string
          format: uri
        '@type':
          type: string
          const: sc:Canvas
        label:
          type: string
        width:
          type: integer
        height:
          type: integer
        images:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Annotation'
    Annotation:
      type: object
      properties:
        '@type':
          type: string
          const: oa:Annotation
        motivation:
          type: string
          const: sc:painting
        true:
          type: string
          format: uri
        resource:
          type: object
          properties:
            '@id':
              type: string
              format: uri
            '@type':
              type: string
              const: dctypes:Image
            format:
              type: string
            width:
              type: integer
            height:
              type: integer
            service:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/ImageService'
    Sequence:
      type: object
      properties:
        '@id':
          type: string
          format: uri
        '@type':
          type: string
          const: sc:Sequence
        canvases:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Canvas'
    Collection:
      type: object
      required:
      - '@context'
      - '@id'
      - '@type'
      properties:
        '@context':
          type: string
          const: http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json
        '@id':
          type: string
          format: uri
        '@type':
          type: string
          const: sc:Collection
        label:
          type: string
        description:
          type: string
        manifests:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              '@id':
                type: string
                format: uri
              '@type':
                type: string
                const: sc:Manifest
              label:
                type: string