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Creating online jigsaw puzzles from Harvard Digital Collections images

These instructions were adapted from tweets by Emma Stanford on using Bodleian Library IIIF images to create online jigsaw puzzles: https://twitter.com/e_stanf/status/1233102000151126017.

  1. Find an image in Harvard Digital Collections: https://library.harvard.edu/digital-collections. Here is an example image, MS Thr 495 (319) from the Harvard Theatre Collection:
https://id.lib.harvard.edu/digital_collections/hou01892c00350
  1. Click Copy Manifest Link in the Tools & Related Links panel. The link should like this:
https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:427681830
  1. Use the number after "ids:" to make the IIIF JPEG URL: https://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/iiif/[REPLACE THIS WITH THE IDS NUMBER]/full/full/0/default.jpg. The edited link will look like this:
https://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/iiif/427681830/full/full/0/default.jpg

  1. Paste the JPEG URL here: https://www.jigsawexplorer.com/create-a-jigsaw-puzzle/. The credit line is limited to 120 characters, but the credit URL can point to the Havard Digital Collections record.

  2. Copy the puzzle link and have fun! Example: https://jigex.com/Ngg2

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