# Waseda IIIF Presentation API (Cultural Resources)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/waseda/iiif-presentation/  
**Provider:** Waseda University — https://apis.io/providers/waseda/  
**Base URL:** https://iiif.archive.waseda.jp/iiif/manifest  
**Documentation:** https://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kotenseki/ga_IIIF/about_iiif.html

Waseda IIIF Presentation API (Cultural Resources) is one of 10 APIs that [Waseda University](https://apis.io/providers/waseda/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include IIIF, Cultural Heritage, Digital Archives, Library, and Metadata. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Waseda University operates its own IIIF server for the Kotenseki Sogo Database (古典籍総合データベース) of classical Japanese books and the Waseda Cultural Resources Database (文化資源データベース). It serves IIIF Presentation API 2.1 manifests as application/json — sc:Manifest documents carrying label, metadata, attribution "早稲田大学図書館 (Waseda University Library)", a license pointer to Waseda's own image-use terms, and a sequence of sc:Canvas each wired to the Image API service. Anonymous, no credential, no rate-limit signal advertised. This is the clearest piece of Waseda-authored machine-readable infrastructure in the profile.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **Documentation** — https://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kotenseki/ga_IIIF/about_iiif.html
- **Specification** — https://iiif.io/api/presentation/2.1/
- **TermsOfService** — https://www.waseda.jp/library/user/using-images/
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/waseda/refs/heads/main/examples/waseda-examples.yml
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/waseda/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Waseda University APIs (9)

- [Waseda IIIF Image API](https://apis.io/apis/waseda/iiif-image/)
- [Waseda Identity Provider (Shibboleth SAML 2.0)](https://apis.io/apis/waseda/shibboleth-idp/)
- [GakuNin Academic Access Federation membership](https://apis.io/apis/waseda/gakunin-federation/)
- [Waseda Moodle — LTI 1.3 / LTI Advantage platform](https://apis.io/apis/waseda/moodle-lti/)
- [Waseda Moodle Web Services (REST)](https://apis.io/apis/waseda/moodle-webservices/)
- [Waseda University Repository (OAI-PMH)](https://apis.io/apis/waseda/repository-oai/)
- [WINE Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/waseda/wine-primo/)
- [ROR registration (Research Organization Registry)](https://apis.io/apis/waseda/ror-registration/)
- [Crossref Open Funder Registry membership](https://apis.io/apis/waseda/crossref-funder/)

## Tags

IIIF, Cultural Heritage, Digital Archives, Library, Metadata, JSON-LD

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