Introduction

The IIIF Cloud Services Portal (Beta) provides a browser-based interface for managing digital assets, creating and editing IIIF Manifests and Collections, and administering users — without needing to write code.

Some of the key features available in the portal include:

Uploading and managing digital assets in Spaces
Creating and editing IIIF Manifests and Collections
Importing existing external IIIF content
Managing IIIF content with folders and templates
User management

Some of the key updates since the v1.0 release include:

Storage of additional types of IIIF content
Additional IIIF Manifest editorial support and integration with the platform
Support for IIIF Collections
User management features
Additional IIIF Manifest template support
Named query management
And other usability improvements

Development of further IIIF Publishing specific features is ongoing alongside further development of the IIIF Cloud Service APIs, with further features expected to be released throughout 2026.

Known issues

While the IIIF specification does support audio and video files, it’s not currently possible to save a Manifest after adding audio files from your Spaces.
The IIIF specification permits the addition of IIIF Collections to themselves; however, in this version of the portal this is not permitted. You can add valid IIIF content once to a Collection — it is not possible to save the same item twice in the same collection.
When you add internally hosted resources to a IIIF Collection within the portal, these items (Manifests or other Collections) don’t currently allow you to navigate or link directly to them. This functionality will be available in an upcoming minor release.
With IIIF Collections managed within the portal, if an internally hosted Manifest or Collection is moved or its slug is changed then it will break the link in the Collection and will need to be removed and re-added.