Map Librarian / Artist / Teacher focused on user-centered design, informal learning in GLAM, new uses for old maps, collaborative interdisciplinary problem-solving, and the interplay between technology and culture.

Manifest Builder Webapp

I’m toiling away on this gallery builder idea, and will post about it soon.

In order to use images from the Internet Archive in any IIIF viewer you have to build the manifest URL by copying the image identifier and pasting it into a structured URL. I’ve been doing this in a random Google doc.

High on the success of bossing chatbots into generating code for me, I asked Gemini 2.5 pro to make this webapp that builds the URL for me.

Here are instructions on how to do this manually, from the IIIF Get Started Guide for the Internet Archive:

IIIFmanifestsonIA

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