# IIIF: Global Image Access ## expand\_more The **International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) i**s quickly becoming the global standard for image delivery and access in both library and museum communities. At Harvard, IIIF is being adopted throughout [Harvard Library](https://library.harvard.edu/), [Harvard Art Museums](https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/), [HarvardX](https://harvardx.harvard.edu/), and many other departments across campus. For more information, see [Harvard IIIF](http://iiif.harvard.edu/). ### **Japanese Collections adopting IIIF:** ![Database of Pre-Modern Japanese Works](/sites/g/files/omnuum10046/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/jdrc/files/screen_shot_2018-10-04_at_4.15.17_pm.png?itok=NOrxlcsb) [**Database of Pre-Modern Japanese Works**](https://kotenseki.nijl.ac.jp/?ln=en) 新日本古典籍総合データベース *National Institute of Japanese Literature* A network for international collaborative research that includes writings and images of approximately 300,000 "Pre-modern Japanese Books" using IIIF. ![NDL Digital Collections](/sites/g/files/omnuum10046/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/jdrc/files/screen_shot_2018-07-05_at_3.20.11_pm.png?itok=Vek2XBA6) [**National Diet Library Digital Collections** ](http://dl.ndl.go.jp/?__lang=en) 國立国会図書館デジタルコレクション Approximately 340,000 IIIF manifests are now available through the NDL Digital Collections. Images include nishiki-e, maps, and many important cultural properties. ![Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive](/sites/g/files/omnuum10046/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/jdrc/files/screen_shot_2018-07-05_at_5.28.24_pm.png?itok=lI-ESAr4) [**Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive**](https://rmda.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en) 京都大学貴重資料デジタルアーカイブ Kyoto University Library has approximately 900,314 images of 10,362 titles available in IIIF as of April 2018 ![SAT Taishōzō Image Database](/sites/g/files/omnuum10046/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/jdrc/files/screen_shot_2018-07-05_at_6.54.38_pm.png?itok=24fdsFxI) [**SAT Taishōzō Image Database**](https://dzkimgs.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SATi/images.php?alang=en) 大正新脩大藏經図像データベース Led by Professor Masahiro Shimoda of the University of Tokyo, users can search images not only from the search window but also through the tags. ![World Digital Library](/sites/g/files/omnuum10046/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/jdrc/files/screen_shot_2018-07-05_at_7.06.33_pm.png?itok=-1gBmeKs) [**World Digital Library**](https://www.wdl.org/en/search/?countries=JP#2937&view=list) *Library of Congress* While not specific to Japan, the World Digital Library contains approximately 398 images and IIIF manifests for this region. ![Meiji at 150 Digital Teaching Resource](/sites/g/files/omnuum10046/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/jdrc/files/screen_shot_2018-10-04_at_5.00.33_pm.png?itok=jTNbi9Y-) [**Meiji at 150 Digital Teaching Resource**](https://meijiat150dtr.arts.ubc.ca/) *University of British Columbia* Open-source scholarly content for educators and researchers looking for digital images and topics to introduce into their classroom teaching. ![Perry in Japan](/sites/g/files/omnuum10046/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/jdrc/files/perry_in_japan.png?itok=8acpsZA0) ![Great Kanto Earthquake](/sites/g/files/omnuum10046/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/jdrc/files/kanto_earthquake.png?itok=2gmqGVev) [**Perry in Japan: A Visual History**](https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/collections/id_640/) and [**Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923**](https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/collections/id_563/) *Brown University Library* A collection of 38 images connected to Commodore Matthew Perry's encounter with Japan (1853-54), as well as a collection of 233 photographic recording the devastation of the Great Kanto Earthquake. ## Featured Japan Project **Cultural Japan** This site contains more than a million items from various museums and libraries around the world, and allows for a federated search of IIIF resources. ![CulturalJapan](/sites/g/files/omnuum10046/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/jdrc/files/19.jpg?itok=TQ3rQu5N) ## Featured Harvard Project **[Manchukuo-Related Postcards](https://images.hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,Manchukuo&tab=default_tab&search_scope=default_scope&vid=HVD_IMAGES&lang=en_US&offset=0)** *Harvard-Yenching Library* Some 2400 postcards related to Imperial Japan [ ![Manchuguo-Related Postcards](/sites/g/files/omnuum10046/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/jdrc/files/manchuguo-postcards.png?itok=27BNioaX) ](https://images.hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,Manchukuo&tab=default_tab&search_scope=default_scope&vid=HVD_IMAGES&lang=en_US&offset=0) ## Featured Platform [**IIIF Curation Platform**](http://codh.rois.ac.jp/icp/) *Center for Open Data in the Humanities* A crowd sourcing platform for cutting, collecting, pasting, and storing parts of images across IIIF services worldwide. ![IIIF Curation Platform](/sites/g/files/omnuum10046/files/jdrc/files/iiif_curation_platform.png) Example: [**Collection of Facial Expressions**](http://codh.rois.ac.jp/face/) Faces cut and curated from Japanese emaki ![screen_shot_2018-06-19_at_4.57.10_pm](/sites/g/files/omnuum10046/files/2025-04/screen_shot_2018-06-19_at_4.57.10_pm.png)