The IIPImage server, iipsrv, is now available as an Alpine Linux package. Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution that is designed to be small, simple, and secure and thanks to its small footprint is widely used for virtual machines and container environments, such as Docker. […]
The TIFF image format is the recommended input format for use with IIPImage due to it’s flexibility, unrivaled speed as well as its ability to handle multiple bit depths, scientific imaging and multidimensional datasets. However, how a TIFF is encoded and structured can make a large difference to the resulting file size as well as […]
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Version 1.2 of iipsrv, the IIPImage server, is now officially released and available for download! This is a major new version containing a whole host of new features, major performance enhancements, optimizations, numerous bug-fixes and stability enhancements. Major new features include support for output in PNG and WebP formats, support for TIFF image stacks such […]
The Open Microscopy Environment’s OME-TIFF specification is a TIFF-based format designed for whole-slide microscopy designed to replace various proprietary formats. It essentially consists of a standard TIFF file with one or more images to create a stack or time series of microscopy images. In addition, OME-TIFF defines an XML metadata structure which provides information on […]
Guest Post by Marie Svoboda, J. Paul Getty Museum Mummy Portrait of a Young WomanTempera on wood, about A.D. 170–200 In 2013, the Antiquities Conservation Department at the J. Paul Getty Museum launched a collaborative study inviting major museums around the world to participate in the study and characterization of the manufacturing practices and material […]
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Version 1.1 of iipsrv, the IIPImage server, is now officially released! This is a major new version containing a whole host of new features, major performance enhancements, optimizations, numerous bug-fixes and stability enhancements. Major new features include support for decoding JPEG2000 images via the OpenJPEG library, support for several new image processing functions, ICC profile […]
IIPImage has teamed up with Klokan Technologies to make the adoption of IIIF (the International Image Interoperability Framework) and JPEG2000 faster and easier for institutions seeking to implement the IIIF standard. IIIFServer is a high performance IIIF 2.1 image server that has been optimized for fast efficient use with IIIF and JPEG2000. The server is […]
A binary distribution of iipsrv version 1.0 is now available for the latest version of Solaris, Solaris 11.3, for x86 Solaris users. This distribution contains both 32bit and 64bit compiled IIPImage server binaries. […]
IIPImage is is now an official FreeBSD package. As of version 1.0 of iipsrv, the IIPImage server is now included as part of the FreeBSD ports package collection. […]
Version 1.0 of iipsrv, the IIPImage server, is now officially released! This is a major new version containing a whole host of new features, major performance enhancements, optimizations, numerous bug-fixes and stability enhancements. […]
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