Simple IIIF Discovery services utilise existing institutional APIs or stand alone as an independent layers in order to facilitate basic keyword searches over existing datasets. The examples in this section illustrate the implementation of Simple Discovery endpoints in conjunction with the collections of major institutions within the UK. In the case of the National Gallery, the Simple Discovery endpoint utilises ElasticSearch to preform a basic keyword search on the file names and stored metadata held within the gallery systems, for the National Gallery of Art example the system carries out a simple keyword search against their website API, while the examples from the V&A and Wellcome collections make use of the V&A API (version 2), and the Wellcome’s APIs respectively. Links to the participating institutions are provided below, with search results displayed via Mirador or OpenSeadragon.

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