User Manual
The aim of the IIIF Manifest Editor is to reduce the guess work and pure JSON editing when creating and/or manipulating manifests. It features a simple and easy-to-use interface with forms to edit the JSON value-pairs and drag-and-drop of images/canvases to facilitate the ordering and editing of the manifest without JSON knowledge. It will let you validate and download the created/modified IIIF manifest.
See installation instructions of the README file on Github: https://github.com/bodleian/iiif-manifest-editor/
The start page of the application allows you to choose between creating a new manifest from scratch or open an existing manifest. Click on the "Open Manifest" button:
To load a remote manifest, insert the URL for the remote manifest to load and click on the "Open" button.
Alternatively, click on the "Choose File" button in the "From Computer" form field, this will let you choose a local file from your computer. Select a IIIF manifest (JSON) file from your computer and click on the "Open" button:
Once the remote or local manifest is loaded you will see the "Edit Manifest" page:
The "Edit Manifest" page contains the following main sections:
- Main viewer (top left): view, zoom and pan current canvas, navigate through sequence, toggle metadata sidebar
- Thumbnail strip (bottom left): view canvases and navigate through sequence. Drag canvases to reorder sequence
- Action buttons (top right): create new manifest, open another manifest, download and validate current manifest (save) and close current manifest
- Metadata sidebar: view and edit manifest metadata. Add, remove and edit metadata for the manifest level, the sequence level and the canvas level
The following annotated image will explain the different sections of the "Edit Manifest" page:
To edit Canvas metadata, click on the "Canvas" panel header in the metadata sidebar to open it:
Right-click on any canvas in the thumbnail strip. This will pop up a context menu that let's you:
- Add an empty canvas to the left of the current canvas
- Add an empty canvas to the right of the current canvas
- Duplicate the current canvas
- Delete the current canvas
Click on the "New" button. You will be prompted if you would like to proceed (or cancel to download your modified manifest first). After confirming, you will be presented with an empty "skeleton" manifest with 0 canvases and placeholder metadata:
Edit the metadata for the new manifest in the metadata sidebar by clicking on the placeholder text or adding a new metadata field. Add a new canvas by clicking on the "Add Canvas" button in the thumbnail strip. This will add an empty canvas that can then be updated with a label or image annotation in the canvas panel of the metadata sidebar:
