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The Mirador viewer is highly configurable. The Mirador configuration file for DSpace includes a number of settings that you can override manually, including CSS values for styling. Be sure to note that some of the Mirador behavior (like the inclusion of thumbnail navigation on the right) is set by the Angular component at runtime. You can choose to override these runtime settings if you like. 




Installing the Adding an Image Server

The Cantaloupe Image Server is currently recommended for use with DSpace, but you are free to use the image server of your choice. A list of IIIF-compliant image servers is maintained by the IIIF community.

Here is a brief overview of how the IIIF image server works with DSpace.

First, the base path to the image server is defined in config/modules/iiif.cfg.  

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Given this configuration, when the Mirador client requests a an IIIF manifest from the DSpace IIIF backend it that manifest will include an image resource annotation like the following:

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The Mirador viewer uses this annotation to retrieve the image. This example assumes that the image server (in this case, cantaloupeCantaloupe) responds at the image server base URL provided in config/modules/iiif.cfg.

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