University of California, Los Angeles

UCLA Library IIIF Image Service

UCLA Library self-hosts a Cantaloupe 5.0.5 image server exposing both IIIF Image API 2.x and 3.0 endpoints for its digital collections. Institution-operated on UCLA's own AWS infrastructure under a UCLA-issued certificate, not a vendor platform. Live but effectively unreadable from outside - every identifier probed, including a deliberate nonsense control, returned 403 with a Java stack trace naming the private S3 source bucket, so no manifest or info.json could be retrieved and none is claimed.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://iiif.library.ucla.edu/

Other Resources

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Examples
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucla/refs/heads/main/examples/ucla-iiif-cantaloupe-403-negative-probe.txt
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Errors
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucla/refs/heads/main/errors/ucla-errors.yml
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GitHubOrganization
https://github.com/UCLALibrary

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: ucla:library-iiif
name: UCLA Library IIIF Image Service
description: UCLA Library self-hosts a Cantaloupe 5.0.5 image server exposing both IIIF Image API 2.x
  and 3.0 endpoints for its digital collections. Institution-operated on UCLA's own AWS infrastructure
  under a UCLA-issued certificate, not a vendor platform. Live but effectively unreadable from outside
  - every identifier probed, including a deliberate nonsense control, returned 403 with a Java stack trace
  naming the private S3 source bucket, so no manifest or info.json could be retrieved and none is claimed.
humanURL: https://guides.library.ucla.edu/digital-collections/iiif
baseURL: https://iiif.library.ucla.edu/iiif/2
tags:
- Library
- IIIF
- Digital Collections
- Image
- Cultural Heritage
tags_raw:
- Library
- IIIF
- Digital Collections
- Images
- Cultural Heritage
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://iiif.library.ucla.edu/
- type: Examples
  url: examples/ucla-iiif-cantaloupe-403-negative-probe.txt
- type: Errors
  url: errors/ucla-errors.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/UCLALibrary
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: TLS subject O=University of California, Los Angeles issued by InCommon RSA OV SSL
  CA 3; resolves to an AWS ELB in UCLA Library's own us-west-2 account; software is open-source Cantaloupe
  self-hosted, not a hosted repository service.
x-access: blocked
x-status: 403 with stack trace on every identifier including a negative control (probed 2026-08-19)