I show you an experiment:
https://iiif.link
Open a manifest, select a canvas, zoom and pan to a desired detail, and click share. A unique URL will be generated that can be shared over the internet; upon opening the URL the viewer will open at the saved zoom and position.
The urls contains opengraph meta tags displaying the manifest label and the selected region, useful to share in tweets or in messaging and chats. More: requesting HEAD returns some informations in http headers.
Code here:
https://github.com/atomotic/iiif.link
Comments are welcome.
Disclaimer: feel free to use to share contents. Don't assume stability for now, i'm still figuring some details about scalability and economic cost of running the service (maybe is better don't use those links to cite content in your phd research or paper :)
Bye.
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