About

Using a single IIIF Presentation Collection as a data source, Canopy IIIF (Canopy) generates a browseable, searchable, customizable, and contextually-driven static site using Next.js without duplicating content.

Use Cases

Canopy “makes easy” the creation of digital exhibits for libraries, archives, and museums by providing user-experience focused components that bring IIIF resources to life. For digital humanists and scholars, Canopy provides a straightforward method to curate works from multiple sources and provide additional perspectives and aboutness beyond the included descriptive metadata. The decentralized, interoperable, and linked-data attributes of the IIIF APIs empower Canopy to provide smaller institutions with a streamlined front-end platform, neatly sidestepping the monolithic complexities often associated with conventional digital asset management systems.

Features

• easy Markdown authoring for scholarly content
• static page generation for each Manifest in a Collection
• customizable full-text search index using FlexSearch
• automatically generated facets based on Manifest metadata
• reusable components based on IIIF content

Colophon

Canopy IIIF was created by Mat Jordan (Northwestern University) and Mark Baggett (Texas A&M University) as means to build exhibit style digital humanities projects that extend existing digital collections using IIIF Collections and Manifests. The project name "Canopy" is inspired by the presentation, A Tree's Strength Is Its Trunk: IIIF as Central Operational Infrastructure, delivered by M.A. Matienzo (formerly Stanford University Libraries) and Esmé Cowles (Princeton University Library) at the CNI Fall 2020 Virtual Membership Meeting.

Canopy IIIF uses FlexSearch index for text search, IIIF Presentation API 3.0 delivering resource content, Markdown as MDX for content, TailwindCSS used throughout for the user interface, and various community modules from IIIF Commons and Samvera supporting presentation and resource delivery.