About Telar

Telar (Spanish for ‘loom’) is a static site generator built on Jekyll that weaves together IIIF images, text, and layered contextual information into interactive digital narrative exhibitions. Telar uses the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) to serve high-resolution images that can be zoomed, panned, and explored in detail. The framework combines these images with narrative text and layered contextual panels to create immersive storytelling experiences.

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Credits

Telar is developed by Adelaida Ávila, Juan Cobo Betancourt, Santiago Muñoz, and students and scholars at the UCSB and UT Archives, Memory, and Preservation Labs.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective, the Center for Innovative Teaching, Research, and Learning (CITRAL) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the UCSB Library, the Routes of Enslavement in the Americas University of California MRPI, and the Department of History of The University of Texas at Austin.

For more information, visit the Telar GitHub repository.

Telar was built with:

• Jekyll - Static site generator
• UniversalViewer - IIIF viewer
• Bootstrap 5 - CSS framework
• iiif-static - IIIF tile generator

It is based on Paisajes Coloniales, and inspired by:

• Wax - Minimal computing for digital exhibitions
• CollectionBuilder - Static digital collections