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Need help using the Viewer? Please send questions and feedback to the Harvard Library Viewer support team.

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Warning

Switching to the old PDS interface sets a browser cookie that makes old PDS the default viewer and hides the link back to the new Viewer. To make the new Viewer interface the default again, close all windows of your browser session and restart or go into browser settings and delete the harvard.edu “oldPDS” cookie. This is a bug that will be fixed very soon. Apologies for the inconvenience. (3/25/2016)

Navigating an object

This screenshot shows basic options for navigating pages in an image object. Click the image to enlarge.

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The near operator will match terms that are within 100 words of each other, regardless of their order.

Tip: Use * as a wildcard. Examples: cat*, oper* and Harv*

Viewing multiple image objects

You can use the Viewer workspace to compare multiple image objects. This can include image objects at Harvard or external sources, as long as they come from a IIIF-compatible repository. At this time, page-turned objects stored in DRS and delivered by the Harvard Library Page Delivery Service (PDS) are IIIF-compatible. 

In this release of the Viewer, compatible image objects can be loaded directly into the viewer if you know the object’s manifest url. This url retrieves a manifest – a collection of presentation and structural metadata that the Viewer uses to display the object.  (A future release will let you search for compatible image objects.)

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