Create fast & light digital projects with IIIF Collections
Canopy IIIF helps you add context and narratives to IIIF material provided by Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Don't worry about derivatives and storage. Just create Markdown projects that are easy to build and maintain.
What is Canopy IIIF?
Canopy “makes easy” the creation of digital exhibits for libraries, archives, & 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.
- Builds static digital collection sites directly from IIIF Collections.
- Generates one page for each IIIF Manifest.
- Indexes Manifest metadata automatically for search and filtering.
- Provides clear, reusable IIIF-based components for presentation.
- Supports Markdown authoring for contextual and scholarly writing.
- Runs without a database or backend.
- Produces fast, lightweight, low-maintenance sites.