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 helps researchers, libraries, archives, and museums create polished digital projects with intuitive tools that showcase IIIF resources. It lets scholars and digital humanists curate works from many sources and add context and narrative. Built on IIIF’s decentralized and interoperable APIs, Canopy provides a customizable modern front end that needs no backend or database, allowing quick setup and low maintenance. The only requirement is access to IIIF Collections with the desired objects. In minutes, users can generate fast, lightweight static sites that are easy to host and draw on IIIF’s rich metadata and media.

Builds a static web site directly from IIIF Collections.
Generates a work page representing 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 entirely without an integrated database or backend.
Produces fast, lightweight, low-maintenance sites that are easy to host.

Highlighted Items

This section features an organized selection of IIIF manifests referenced in this project. Each slider displays items matching the most common results for metadata labels such as Genre, Language, and Subject, linking resources across the project.