Turn IIIF collections into places worth exploring.

iiif.site turns your collections into websites audiences can explore. Bring IIIF or Madoc, shape a story, review it in Preview, and publish a durable Live site.

Early access is currently open by invitation to institutions, collections, and independent projects.

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North Atlantic Archive
Logbooks1871–1904
Portraits48 Manifests
RoutesExplore the map

Featured collection

Lives shaped by the sea

Follow ships, people, and places across digitised records and community transcriptions.

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Available todayThree presentation templatesIIIF and Madoc importsPages, posts, topics, and Page BlocksSearchable Preview and Live sites

A complete path from collection to publication.

Bring collections, editorial stories, previews, and public sites together in one publishing experience designed for IIIF.

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Bring your collection

Start with a IIIF Manifest, a Collection, or a public Madoc project. Keep it connected to its source or bring an editable copy into the site.

Manifests · Collections · Madoc projects

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Shape the story

Combine collection browsing with pages, posts, themes, featured objects, and visual Page Blocks. Give every collection context and invite deeper exploration.

Minimal · Exhibition · Canopy

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Publish with confidence

Save your changes, build a Preview when you are ready, and publish the reviewed edition to Live.

Reviewable previews · stable public links · clear history

One collection can be a catalogue, an exhibition, a research resource, or all three.

Choose a starting point, then shape the browsing and storytelling experience around the collection.

Explore

Browse Collections and Manifests, follow metadata topics, search the published site, and move through related works while keeping the wider collection in view.

Search people, places, objects…
Voyage of the Resolute

Manifest · Logbooks · 1884

Interpret

Mix authored pages, posts, featured resources, and visual storytelling blocks with the IIIF itself. Keep the story and collection together as the site evolves.

Quote block

“Every object carries more than one story.”

Publish

Saved changes wait for you to build a new Preview. Review that edition, then publish it to Live when it is ready.

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Beyond early access.

This is the product direction: richer ways to explore, multilingual publishing, shared team spaces, unified discovery, and projects you can carry into your own tools and hosting.

Personal and team spaces

A home for independent projects, with shared spaces for teams shaping collections together.

Publishing in every language

Multilingual sites and a dashboard that can meet editors and audiences in their own language.

Deeper collection paths

Move through nested Collections, Manifests, and connected projects with a clear sense of place.

One place to search

Bring collection records, stories, topics, transcriptions, and community contributions into one search.

A project you can take with you

Publish with iiif.site, then take away a complete project you can run and build yourself.

GitHub on your terms

Connect publishing to your own repository and hosting when that is the right home for your Live site.

Made to work with the IIIF ecosystem.

iiif.site brings collection systems, editors, image services, and community contributions into one public publishing journey—giving connected collections a place to grow.

IIIFBring Manifests, Collections, media, and viewers together
MadocCarry published research and contributions into the site
SearchHelp audiences find people, places, objects, and stories
CataloguesKeep public collection content connected and current
Page BlocksAdd visual stories around the collection itself
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Build a public home that grows with your collection.

We are opening iiif.site with a small group of institutions and projects, shaping the first release alongside them.

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