Yale University · Example Payload
Yale Iiif Manifest Example
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Yale Iiif Manifest Example is an example object payload from Yale University, with 15 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.
Top-level fields
@contextidtypelabelhomepagerequiredStatementrenderingseeAlsometadataprovideritemsthumbnailstartstructuresnavDate
Example Payload
{
"@context": [
"http://iiif.io/api/search/1/context.json",
"http://iiif.io/api/extension/navplace/context.json",
"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json"
],
"id": "https://collections.library.yale.edu/manifests/2055095",
"type": "Manifest",
"label": {
"none": [
"A General dictionary of the English language"
]
},
"homepage": [
{
"id": "https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2055095",
"type": "Text",
"format": "text/html",
"label": {
"en": [
"Yale Digital Collections page"
]
}
}
],
"requiredStatement": {
"label": {
"en": [
"Provider"
]
},
"value": {
"en": [
"Yale University Library"
]
}
},
"rendering": [
{
"id": "https://collections.library.yale.edu/pdfs/2055095.pdf",
"type": "Text",
"format": "application/pdf",
"label": {
"en": [
"Download as PDF"
]
}
}
],
"seeAlso": [
{
"id": "https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_mods&identifier=oai:collections.library.yale.edu:2055095",
"type": "Dataset",
"format": "application/mods+xml",
"profile": "http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3"
}
],
"metadata": [
{
"label": {
"en": [
"Creator"
]
},
"value": {
"none": [
"Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784"
]
}
},
{
"label": {
"en": [
"Published/Created Date"
]
},
"value": {
"none": [
"1755"
]
}
},
{
"label": {
"en": [
"Publication Place"
]
},
"value": {
"none": [
"London"
]
}
},
{
"label": {
"en": [
"Publisher"
]
},
"value": {
"none": [
"Printed by W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton [etc.]"
]
}
},
{
"label": {
"en": [
"Abstract"
]
},
"value": {
"none": [
"Published on April 15, 1755 and written largely single-handedly by Samuel Johnson. Sometimes published as \"Johnson's Dictionary.\" The first edition was published in two folio volumes; later editions were published in four volumes."
]
}
},
{
"label": {
"en": [
"Description"
]
},
"value": {
"none": [
"Four volume printer's proof with manuscript notes throughout."
]
}
},
{
"label": {
"en": [
"Extent"
]
},
"value": {
"none": [
"1 volume",
"43 cm."
]
}
},
{
"label": {
"en": [
"Language"
]
},
"value": {
"none": [
"English"
]
}
},
{
"label": {
"en": [
"Repository"
]
},
"value": {
"none": [
"Beinecke Library"
]
}
},
{
"label": {
"en": [
"Call Number"
]
},
"value": {
"none": [
"GEN MSS VOL 728 (Oversize)"
]
}
},
{
"label": {
"en": [
"Extent of Digitization"
]
},
"value": {
"none": [
"Completely digitized"
]
}
},
{
"label": {
"en": [
"Format"
]
},
"value": {
"none": [
"text"
]
}
},
{
"label": {
"en": [
"Genre"
]
},
"value": {
"none": [
"Annotations",
"Dictionaries",
"Marginalia",
"Proofs (Printed matter)"
]
}
},
{
"label": {
"en": [
"Resource Type"
]
},
"value": {
"none": [
"Books, Journals & Pamphlets"
]
}
},
{
"label": {
"en": [
"Access"
]
},
"value": {
"none": [
"Public"
]
}
},
{
"label": {
"en": [
"Rights"
]
},
"value": {
"none": [
"The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement."
]
}
},
{
"label": {
"en": [
"Orbis ID"
]
},
"value": {
"none": [
"1169354"
]
}
},
{
"label": {
"en": [
"Object ID (OID)"
]
},
"value": {
"none": [
"2055095"
]
}
}
],
"provider": [
{
"id": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2583293",
"type": "Agent",
"label": {
"en": [
"Yale Library"
]
},
"homepage": [
{
"id": "https://library.yale.edu/",
"type": "Text",
"label": {
"en": [
"Yale Library homepage"
]
},
"format": "text/html"
}
]
}
],
"items": [
{
"type": "Canvas",
"items": [
{
"id": "https://collections.library.yale.edu/manifests/oid/2055095/canvas/1234822/page/1",
"type": "AnnotationPage",
"items": [
{
"id": "https://collections.library.yale.edu/manifests/oid/2055095/canvas/1234822/image/1",
"type": "Annotation",
"motivation": "painting",
"target": "https://collections.library.yale.edu/manifests/oid/2055095/canvas/1234822",
"body": {
"id": "https://collections.library.yale.edu/iiif/2/1234822/full/full/0/default.jpg",
"type": "Image",
"format": "image/jpeg",
"height": 7872,
"width": 5011,
"service": [
{
"@id": "https://collections.library.yale.edu/iiif/2/1234822",
"@type": "ImageService2",
"profile": "http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"
}
]
}
}
]
}
],
"id": "https://collections.library.yale.edu/manifests/oid/2055095/canvas/1234822",
"label": {
"none": [
"[Front cover]"
]
},
"thumbnail": [
{
"id": "https://collections.library.yale.edu/iiif/2/1234822/full/!300,300/0/default.jpg",
"type": "Image",
"format": "image/jpeg",
"height": 300,
"width": 191,
"service": [
{
"@id": "https://collections.library.yale.edu/iiif/2/1234822",
"@type": "ImageService2",
"profile": "http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"
}
]
}
],
"rendering": [
{
"id": "https://collections.library.yale.edu/iiif/2/1234822/full/full/0/default.jpg",
"label": {
"en": [
"Full size"
]
},
"type": "Image",
"format": "image/jpeg"
},
{
"id": "https://collections.library.yale.edu/download/tiff/1234822",
"label": {
"en": [
"Full size original"
]
},
"type": "Image",
"format": "image/tiff"
}
],
"height": 7872,
"width": 5011,
"metadata": [
{
"label": {
"en": [
"Image ID"
]
},
"value": {
"none": [
"1234822"
]
}
},
{
"label": {
"en": [
"Image Label"
]
},
"value": {
"none": [
"[Front cover]"
]
}
},
{
"label": {
"en": [
"Link to this Image"
]
},
"value": {
"none": [
"https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2055095?child_oid=1234822"
]
}
}
]
}
],
"thumbnail": [
{
"id": "https://collections.library.yale.edu/iiif/2/1234822/full/!300,300/0/default.jpg",
"type": "Image",
"format": "image/jpeg",
"height": 300,
"width": 191,
"service": [
{
"@id": "https://collections.library.yale.edu/iiif/2/1234822",
"@type": "ImageService2",
"profile": "http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"
}
]
}
],
"start": {
"id": "https://collections.library.yale.edu/manifests/oid/2055095/canvas/1234822",
"type": "Canvas"
},
"structures": [],
"navDate": "1755-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}Work with this as data
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