Interfaces
IIIF APIs
You can integrate the contents of the Bavarian State Library, which are provided in the IIIF standard, directly into web offers via the APIs (Application Programming Interface) without having to download and maintain the data yourself.
Please note: Commercial use of our digital copies may be subject to approval and fees. For more information on usage and possible fees, please refer to our FAQ.
All the interfaces described in the following provide their responses with the Access Control Allow-Origin: * header, making it possible to use provided data directly in client-side JavaScript applications. The Bavarian State Library provides the IIIF Presentation API and the IIIF Image API. The former one delivers so called manifests of digitized objects in JSON-LD format. Inside the manifests Image API endpoints for each facsimile image are referenced. Each image endpoint provides an info.json file, providing information about the image, like the maximum available resolution. Further more a number of image manipulation steps are available, that are executed on our server farm, before the result is delivered to the client. In addition to the facsimile image, the OCR text of a page, if available, is also accessible via the manifest. You can find the corresponding link under the seeAlso key of a facsimile canvas in the manifest.
Addresses of the IIIF API endpoints
Image API
https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/{image_id}/{region}/{size}/{rotation}/{quality}.{format}
Example of an image file:
https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bsb00109992_00001/full/full/0/default.jpg
https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/{image_id}/info.json
Example of an info.json file:
https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bsb00103155_00013/info.json
Underlying specification: https://iiif.io/api/image/2.1/
Presentation API
URL IIIF manifest: https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/presentation/v2/{object_id}/manifest
Examples of a manifest:
https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/presentation/v2/bsb00012345/manifest
https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/presentation/v2/bsb00130380_00157_u001/manifest
Underlying specification: https://iiif.io/api/presentation/2.1/
URL top collection: https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/presentation/v2/collection/top
Underlying specification: https://iiif.io/api/presentation/2.1/#collection
OCR API
https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/ocr/{object_id}/{page_num}
Example of an OCR XML file:
https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/ocr/bsb00000001/00010
Visit us on Github. There you can find opensource IIIF software developed by the MDZ.
Bavarian Digital Repository
The Bavarian Digital Repository (BDR) is developed to be a freely accessible interface for harvesting metadata about all digital representations produced by or in cooperation with the Bavarian State Library. BDR conforms to the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).
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