Building an Access-Controlled IIIF Digital Archive — Cantaloupe + S3 + Elasticsearch + Next.js, Gated by Cloudflare Access
This article is co-authored with a generative AI. Facts have been cross-checked against official documentation where possible, but errors may remain. Please verify against primary sources before making any important decisions. Background: “We need to deliver IIIF for images we cannot publish openly” Digital archives of historical materials almost always include a non-trivial slice of images that cannot be released to the general public — for reasons of copyright, personality rights, contracts with the holding institution, or ethical considerations. At the same time, internal use cases such as ...