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. […]
iipsrv 1.0
Web-Based Visualization of Very Large Scientific Astronomy Imagery
IIPImage has been adopted by a number of users in the astronomy community due to it’s ability to handle both very large images and scientific-grade quantitative data. […]
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Current Trends and Future Directions for Digital Imaging in Libraries and Archives
Current Trends and Future Directions for Digital Imaging in Libraries and Archives was a one-day workshop on JPEG2000 organized by the Wellcome Library and the Digital Preservation Coalition. IIPImage and a Performance Analysis of JPEG2000 Encoding Parameters … […]
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IIIF – The International Image Interoperability Framework
IIIF is a protocol for standardized image retrieval created by a community of the world’s leading research libraries and image repositories. IIPImage now fully supports version 2.0 of the image API […]
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IIPImage Case Study: National Gallery of Art, Washington
The National Gallery of Art (NGA) has been using IIPImage since the 2010 online release of The History of the Accademia di San Luca research project. The zoom feature of this website uses a slightly […]
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The Cranach Digital Archive
The Cranach Digital Archive (cda) is an interdisciplinary collaborative research resource, providing access to art historical, technical and conservation information on paintings by Lucas Cranach (c.1472-1553). […]
IIPImage now an official Fedora Package
IIPImage is now an official stable Fedora package and is included out of the box with the new release of Fedora 19! The package is based on a recent build of the development version of iipsrv available from the Github repository. Information on the Fedora packages is available at https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/iipsrv with the package source at […]
Open Access with IIPImage at Ghent University Library
Ghent University Library (Belgium) – better known as the “Book Tower” – started digitizing its collections back in 2004. It has a wide variety of material, ranging from books, manuscripts, papyri, posters, coins to drawings and old maps […]
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IIPImage now an Official Ubuntu Package
IIPImage is now an official Ubuntu and Debian package! Version 0.9.9 of the IIPImage server is now distributed as part of the Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal release. It is also included in Debian’s Sid unstable branch, and testing branch from where it should migrate to become part of the forth-coming Debian 7 Wheezy release. […]
iipsrv now on Github
The latest development code for iipsrv, the IIPImage server is now hosted on Github. This should make things far easier for developers to share code and to submit patches. You can check out the repository here https://github.com/ruven/iipsrv The latest code has a host of new features including: Exact export resizing for both TIFF and JPEG2000 […]
