Our third website development sprint kicked off yesterday 🚀There are lots of opportunities to get involved, regardless of technical skill, and are a great way to gain experience in the UV, meet the community and gain experience of agile working. See our Slack channel for more info.
We’ve hit the final day of our second Web Dev sprint!
With just a few hours to go, all tasks are either completed or in progress🤩
Will we wrap everything up by the end of the sprint?👀
Join us at our stakeholder review today at 16:00 (GMT) to find out🚀
llyfrgell-cymru.zoom.us/j/8563203181...
At the House of Commons on Thursday evening for the Open UK awards. @universalviewer.io got runner up in the Community Category. An amazing experience and lovely to meet the other nominees.
We’re continuing to improve our website together as a community! 🚀
Our 2nd WEB DEV sprint kicked off yesterday. Check out our Miro for the MVP and our community board to see what we’re working on 💫
miro.com/app/board/uX...
github.com/orgs/Univers...
Recognising the Power of Community Collaboration, the @universalviewer.io project (universalviewer.io) is shortlisted in the 6th Annual OpenUK Awards Community category sponsored by @Arm, taking place on 4th December at the House of Commons, thanks to Dame Chi Onwurah for hosting. #openukawards
All are welcome! Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/universal-...
We're looking forward to seeing you at UVCON next week! Join us for a half-day of presentations and conversation about the past, present and future of the Universal Viewer. Here's a peek at the schedule
OpenUK Awards 25 Community Category sponsored by Arm, Shortlist is live, congratulations to the shortlisted nominees: Andy Piper, @universalviewer.io (universalviewer.io), and Daniel Gale 🍾🥂🏆
#openukawards #opensource #community
We're very excited to have been shortlisted for an OpenUK award, in recognition of our amazing community of developers, managers, testers, curators, and translators. See you at the Oscars of Open Source! #openukawards @openuk.bsky.social
The Community Project runs from Tuesday 28 October 2025 until Thursday 19 February 2026 and comprises of four sprints. The first is kicking off at 14:00 GMT/UTC on Tuesday 28 October. Join us on the UV Slack for full details: universalviewer.slack.com/archives/C06...
If you have ever found the Universal Viewer website out of date, hard to navigate or think it could explain things better, this is a great chance to help shape it. Help us review existing content, suggest new additions and participate in usability testing.
We want YOU for our next UV Community Project!
The Project runs from Tuesday 28 October 2025 until Thursday 19 February 2026 and will be focussing on improving the UV Community website. No coding experience necessary.
"Radically inclusive software development for digital cultural heritage" a discussion around @universalviewer.io | @miaout.bsky.social , Saira Akhter, James Misson (speakers); Lanie Okorodudu, Erin Burnand
"Radically inclusive software development for digital cultural heritage" a discussion around @universalviewer.io | @miaout.bsky.social, S Akhter, J Misson (speakers); L Okorodudu, E Burnand | Thanks for the @iiif.bsky.social Shoutout| @britishlibrary.bsky.social @bldigischol.bsky.social | #DH2025
Next Thursday the team at @bldigischol.bsky.social will be talking about the UV's amazing community at @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social . Say hi if you want to talk about UV and IIIF over a pastel de nata!
🛠️ And lots of bug fixes! Check out the release notes for a full log: github.com/UniversalVie...
Thanks to all our contributors who make this open source software possible. And to all future contributors: keep an eye out for opportunities to get involved!
🔗 Big improvements to sharing and embedding functions will help you deploy UV in any context
🆘 A new help button directs users to a link of your choosing, settable in the config.
🚀 Universal Viewer 4.2 is here! Here are some highlights:
📱Our last community sprint focused on mobile UX, so users can now enjoy a fully-featured UV experience on the go.
Feedback always welcome! Join our Slack channel to hear the latest updates and to get involved in the conversation docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
We’re halfway through our latest community sprint!
Our community team have been hard at work – check out our community board to see what they’ve been building, including a new tool to add and view custom configs github.com/orgs/Univers...
We’ve expanded our extensive range of primary source collections that can be explored via the Universal Viewer!
You can find more information regarding the benefits of the Universal Viewer, as well as a list of the fascinating collections that we have recently migrated to it, at buff.ly/Ca7Id09
You don't have to be a developer to contribute. We're also looking for a comms officer, accessibility testers, QA testers, technical writers, and translators. Join our Slack channel for more information, or get in touch with any questions! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
That means we'll be:
🛠️ Developing tools and processes to improve UV configuration
📈 Improving documentation around UV's analytics features
🔗Updating dependencies
❓Helping you solve issues relevant to your use case
Developer Experience. Have you run into frustrations while deploying or developing UV? We'll be working together to tackle these issues head-on, whether it's build failures, clunky processes, or frustrating dev tools.
Want to contribute to open source software used by libraries and galleries all around the world? Our next community sprints will be kicking off May 7, June 10, and July 1! Our focus for these three sprints is...
You can find a list of the upcoming changes here: github.com/UniversalVie...
Our upcoming release has a lot of improvements for mobile users. We're currently testing our release candidate, which you can find here: universalviewer-git-fork-jamesmisson-release-420-rc2-mnemoscene.vercel.app#?xywh=-2435%... Let us know if you spot any bugs!
Erin from our @britishlibrary.bsky.social @bldigischol.bsky.social Universal Viewer team shared an update on work to make it more inclusive and user friendly, improve visibility of IIIF collections, and provide image manipulation youtu.be/m3-cmfPfoK4?... #IIIF #UniversalViewer #UniversalPlayer
Join us tomorrow at the IIIF Community Call for a demo of the latest UV and to hear about our recent community sprints @iiif.bsky.social
IIIF Community Call: Universal Viewer 4.1.0. Wednesday March 12, 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC.
Please save the date for our next Community Call, "Universal Viewer 4.1.0."
On 12 March at 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC, @universalviewer.io team members will demo the latest release.
Please join us using the Zoom on the IIIF Community Calendar: iiif.io/community.
