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Our manifests enable users to view, manipulate, compare, and share digital objects that are published in Europeana. They can add annotations to media resources, mix up content from different providers, or even build new collections by organising manifests into groups. For instance, if a user wants to use an image from Europeana, they no longer need to search for the image URL in the data or download the image. Instead, they can simply use the manifest and load it into any IIIF-compliant viewer. Currently, all a user needs to retrieve the manifest is the Record ID, which is composed of the dataset and local identifier of the object: https://iiif.europeana.eu/presentation/{DATATSET_ID}/{INTERNALRECORD_ID}/manifest (you can test our IIIF API using API Console that supports API calls, including manifest retrieval).
By generating IIIF manifests we are also providing an improved user experience in Europeana. Users are encouraged to interact with digital objects in new ways. This includes features such as zooming in and out of digital content and gaining access to additional information like transcriptions and multilingual subtitles through annotations.
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