serverless-iiif

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Description

A cost-effective, infinitely scalable IIIF 2.1 (opens in a new tab) and 3.0 (opens in a new tab) image API compliant service packaged as an AWS Serverless Application (opens in a new tab) with minimum setup and no maintenance. Suitable for large institutional collections or small digital humanities projects.

Components

• A simple Lambda Function (opens in a new tab) wrapper for the iiif-processor (opens in a new tab) module.
• A Lambda Function URL (opens in a new tab) that is used to invoke the IIIF API via HTTPS.
• A Lambda Layer (opens in a new tab) containing all the dependencies for the Lambda Function.

Prerequisites

• Some basic knowledge of AWS.
• An Amazon Web Services account with permissions to create resources via the console and/or command line.
• An Amazon S3 (opens in a new tab) bucket to hold the source images to be served via IIIF.

License

serverless-iiif is available under the Apache 2.0 license.