About

The Neighbhorhood Photographic Survey (NPS) is an ongoing project designed to document the many diverse communities of Cleveland the people that call them home. Highlighting homegrown businesses, familiar neighborhood faces and the streets that connect them, the NPS aims to provide current and future Clevelanders with an extensive photographic record of the city.

With more than 500,000 photographs of Cleveland, Cleveland Public Library's Photograph Collection is a tremendous resource for historians, genealogists, sports fans, and anyone interested in Cleveland's history. If you would like to be a part of the Neighborhood Photographic Survey and our collection, please contact us at photograph.collection@cpl.org or (216) 623-2871.

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This interface is based on Canopy interface. Source code is available on our github

Questions about the technical aspects? Email us at website at cpl dot org.

Canopy was created by Mat Jordan (Northwestern University) and Mark Baggett (Texas A&M University) as a method to quickly build exhibit style digital humanities projects that extend existing digital collections using IIIF Collections and Manifests. It continues to be an active open-source initiative of Northwestern University Libraries, where it supports digital scholarship in many forms.

Canopy uses the IIIF Presentation API to deliver rich media from providing institutions, Markdown as MDX for authoring contextual content and layout, TailwindCSS for the user interface, and a static FlexSearch index for search. Easy aggregation and retrieval of IIIF resources is made possible by the IIIF helpers developed by Stephen Fraser. In addition, Clover IIIF, developed by Northwestern University Libraries with contributions from other institutions, is integral to Canopy and provides the rendering of IIIF resources, annotations, and metadata throughout the interface.