Building an Access-Controlled IIIF Digital Archive — Cantaloupe + S3 + Elasticsearch + Next.js, Gated by Cloudflare Access
An implementation log for a digital archive that delivers historical photographs which cannot be made fully public, while still preserving the benefits of IIIF (spec-compliant high-resolution viewer, manifest delivery) for an authorized membership. The stack is Cantaloupe (IIIF server) + S3-compatible storage + Elasticsearch (search) + Next.js (UI) + Cloudflare Tunnel + Access. We also lay out where IIIF Auth API 2.0 would fit in for cross-host interoperability.
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