About Telar
Telar (Spanish for "loom") is a static site generator built on Jekyll for digital storytelling and publishing small digital collections. It weaves IIIF images, video, audio, narrative text, and contextual layers into interactive visual exhibitions, with a card-stacking architecture, fluid scroll navigation, deep linking, and shareable URLs. It follows minimal computing principles: plain text authoring, static generation, and free hosting on GitHub Pages.
You can edit this about page by modifying the
telar-content/texts/pages/about.md file in your repository. Add your own project description, credits, and acknowledgments to personalize your site. To localize for other languages, create a sister file alongside this one (for example, acerca.md for Spanish) with frontmatter localized_for: about.md and language: <lang_code>; the build picks the file matching telar_language.
Credits
Telar is developed by Adelaida Ávila, Juan Cobo Betancourt, Natalie Cobo, Santiago Muñoz, and students and scholars at the UCSB Archives, Memory, and Preservation Lab, the UT Archives, Mapping, and Pedagogy Lab, and Neogranadina.
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 or the Telar Compositor.
Telar is built with:
- Jekyll — Static site generator
- OpenSeadragon — IIIF viewer
- Bootstrap 5 — CSS framework
- libvips — IIIF tile generator
It is based on Paisajes Coloniales, and inspired by:
- Wax — Minimal computing for digital exhibitions
- CollectionBuilder — Static digital collections