British Online Archives (BOA) continues to make significant improvements to the way in which products are accessed by our customers. We are therefore delighted to announce BOA’s continued implementation of the Universal Viewer.
The Universal Viewer (UV) is used to display images and other media. It is open-source software used by many renowned heritage institutions such as the British Library, the National Library of Wales, the Swedish National Archives, and the Wellcome Library. The UV incorporates a range of unique and useful technical features, including deep zoom, OCR searching, IIIF image API, and extensible metadata fields. We are proud to be both a sponsor of the UV as well as a member of its Steering Group.
The UV has already been introduced to a number of our newer products, including British Government Information and Propaganda, 1939-2009 and Records from Bethlem Royal Hospital, 1559-1932, and over the course of the following months, we shall continue to replace our existing PDF viewer with this much-enhanced alternative.
You can find further information about the UV on their homepage as well as its steering group. Alternatively, please contact us at info@britishonlinearchives.digital should you have any questions.