DLCS Public Docs

This is the public documentation site for IIIF Cloud Services (IIIF-CS), a platform by Digirati/DLCS that implements IIIF and related services. The repo has two main parts:

• src/ — Astro + Starlight documentation website, deployed to GitHub Pages at https://dlcs.github.io/public-docs
• dlcs-docs-client/ — Python code samples that accompany the API documentation pages
• scratch/ — Draft markdown content not yet published to the site

Site Development (Astro/Starlight)

All commands run from the src/ directory:

cd src
npm install        # install dependencies
npm run dev        # dev server at localhost:4321
npm run build      # build to ./dist/
npm run preview    # preview production build

Locally the root is http://localhost:4321/public-docs.

Deployment is automatic via GitHub Actions on push to main.

Documentation Content

Content lives in src/src/content/docs/ as .mdx files, organized into three sidebar sections (configured in src/astro.config.mjs):

• usage/ — Conceptual guides (access control, collections, IIIF images/manifests, etc.)
• portal/ — How to use the web UI without writing code
• api-doc/ — Full API reference (assets, spaces, queues, batches, delivery channels, etc.)

Starlight auto-generates the sidebar from the directory structure. Route paths match file names relative to docs/. Static assets used in docs (sample images, fixture files) go in src/public/doc_fixtures/.

Python Code Samples

The dlcs-docs-client/ scripts are runnable examples that mirror the API documentation. Each pNN_topic/ directory corresponds to a documentation section.

Setup:

cd dlcs-docs-client
cp example.env .env   # fill in your credentials
pip install -r requirements.txt
python p01_overview/overview.py

Required .env variables: IIIF_CS_API_HOST, IIIF_CS_PRESENTATION_HOST, IIIF_CS_CUSTOMER_ID, IIIF_CS_CUSTOMER_NAME, IIIF_CS_BASIC_CREDENTIALS (format: key:secret).

The shared settings.py loads these and defines fixed space IDs used across samples. iiif_cs.py contains shared HTTP helpers.