OctopusViewer gathers all your Omeka S media in a lightweight viewer. It's intended to be used as a replacement of other viewers like UniversalViewer or Mirador.
However, unlike UniversalViewer and Mirador, OctopusViewer is not a IIIF viewer. In order to use IIIF manifests with OctopusViewer, they should be added to Omeka S as "IIIF presentation" media (requires Omeka S 4.0.0 or higher).
UniversalViewer and Mirador are great tools but they come with some limitations when using them in Omeka S:
- They require a IIIF Presentation manifest, which often means an additional module should be installed
- They support only a subset of Omeka S media types
- They are not easy to customize in Omeka S themes
The goals of OctopusViewer are:
- it should be able to display all types of media, falling back to a sensible default when a media cannot be rendered in a browser
- it should use as few external dependencies as possible, favoring the tools that are already available on an empty Omeka S installation (like OpenSeadragon)
- it should require no additional Omeka S modules, but should be extensible by them
- it should be easily customizable in Omeka S themes
- A viewer split into 3 panels:
- the left panel contains a media selector
- the center panel renders the media
- the right panel displays metadata for the currently selected media
- Images are displayed within OpenSeadragon, allowing to zoom, rotate, and flip images
- An optional IIIF Image server can be used
- PDF files are displayed with pdfjs.
- Fullscreen mode
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See general end user documentation for installing a module.
The full documentation can be found here: https://biblibre.github.io/omeka-s-module-OctopusViewer/
OctopusViewer is distributed under the GNU General Public License, version 3. The
full text of this license is given in the LICENSE file.