Wolfsonian Digital Labs — IIIF Tools
Proof of Concept

IIIF Lightbox — Builder & Viewer

Creating a Lightbox

Paste a IIIF manifest URL into any slot to load an image. Name your sections and add a description to give context to each group of objects. Use + Add Viewer inside any section to add more image slots, or + Add Section at the bottom of the page to create a new section. Each viewer has a Clear option to replace its content and an × to remove the slot entirely. Sections can be removed using the × in the section header. When your lightbox is ready, click Share Lightbox to copy a shareable link.

Viewing a Shared Lightbox

Open a shared link and all images load instantly. Clear individual viewers using the × button in each toolbar, or use Clear All at the top of the page to reset everything — then fill the lightboxes with your own images and share a new link.

How to share
Click the Share Lightbox button at the top of the page to copy a URL to your clipboard. The link encodes all manifest URLs, section titles, and descriptions — anyone who opens it sees the same lightbox, fully loaded.
About this tool
A curatorial and educational tool for assembling IIIF images from any IIIF-compliant collection into a shareable visual workspace. No accounts, uploads, or server required. Images render via OpenSeadragon 4.1 and the IIIF Presentation API (v2 & v3).

Clear all content?
This will reset all section titles, descriptions, and manifest URLs.

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