University of Manchester IIIF Presentation manifest

Schema for the sc:Manifest documents served by Manchester Digital Collections at www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/iiif/{documentId}. Describes the shape this institution-operated deployment actually returns.

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Properties

Name Type Description
@context object
@id string
@type object
label string
attribution string Always names the University of Manchester on this deployment; it is the ownership signal that makes the surface attributable to the institution.
logo string
metadata array
sequences array
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JSON Schema

university-of-manchester-iiif-manifest-schema.json Raw ↑
{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-manchester/refs/heads/main/json-schema/university-of-manchester-iiif-manifest-schema.json",
  "title": "University of Manchester IIIF Presentation manifest",
  "description": "Schema for the sc:Manifest documents served by Manchester Digital Collections at www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/iiif/{documentId}. Describes the shape this institution-operated deployment actually returns.",
  "x-provenance": {
    "generated": "2026-08-19",
    "method": "derived",
    "source": "https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/iiif/MS-LATIN-00006",
    "status": 200,
    "operator": "institution",
    "note": "Derived from the live 398-canvas manifest saved (truncated) at examples/university-of-manchester-iiif-manifest-example.json."
  },
  "type": "object",
  "required": ["@context", "@id", "@type"],
  "additionalProperties": true,
  "properties": {
    "@context": { "const": "http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json" },
    "@id": { "type": "string", "format": "uri", "pattern": "^https://www\\.digitalcollections\\.manchester\\.ac\\.uk/iiif/" },
    "@type": { "const": "sc:Manifest" },
    "label": { "type": "string" },
    "attribution": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Always names the University of Manchester on this deployment; it is the ownership signal that makes the surface attributable to the institution.",
      "pattern": "University of Manchester"
    },
    "logo": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" },
    "metadata": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": { "label": { "type": "string" }, "value": {} }
      }
    },
    "sequences": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/sequence" }
    }
  },
  "$defs": {
    "sequence": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "@id": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" },
        "@type": { "const": "sc:Sequence" },
        "canvases": { "type": "array", "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/canvas" } }
      }
    },
    "canvas": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": ["@id", "@type"],
      "properties": {
        "@id": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" },
        "@type": { "const": "sc:Canvas" },
        "label": { "type": "string" },
        "width": { "type": "integer" },
        "height": { "type": "integer" },
        "images": { "type": "array", "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/annotation" } }
      }
    },
    "annotation": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "@type": { "const": "oa:Annotation" },
        "motivation": { "const": "sc:painting" },
        "on": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" },
        "resource": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "@id": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" },
            "@type": { "const": "dctypes:Image" },
            "format": { "type": "string" },
            "width": { "type": "integer" },
            "height": { "type": "integer" },
            "service": {
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {
                "@context": { "const": "http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json" },
                "@id": { "type": "string", "format": "uri", "pattern": "^https://image\\.digitalcollections\\.manchester\\.ac\\.uk/iiif/" },
                "profile": { "const": "http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level1.json" }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}