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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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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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 (cda) is an interdisciplinary collaborative research resource, providing access to art historical, technical and conservation information on paintings by Lucas Cranach (c.1472-1553). […]
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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Guest Post by Frank Faas & Raimond Ravelli, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Leiden University Medical Center The Leiden University Medical Centre in The Netherlands conducts a wide range of scientific research ranging from pure fundamental medical research to applied clinical research. Recently, our group in the Department of Molecular Cell Biology, published a paper […]
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Guest Post by Mike Read, Wide-field Astronomy Unit, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh The Wide-Field Astronomy Unit (WFAU), Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh specializes in building and maintaining science archives from astronomical surveys. The bulk of the data we currently process come from two infrared telescopes: VISTA in the southern hemisphere and UKIRT […]
Guest Post by Edu Hackenitz, University Library Utrecht The Utrecht University Library Special Collections contain many extensive collections of manuscripts, pre-1901 printed works, more recent rare and valuable printed works, maps and nautical charts. The library takes care of the acquisition, conservation, scanning, cataloging and availability of this material. […]
In preparation for the imminent full release of version 2.0, I’ve moved the IIPMooViewer code to Github. You can check out the repository here https://github.com/ruven/iipmooviewer New features since the beta release include: Javascript Fullscreen API support Scalable SVG icons Improved window resizing Localization support Plenty of bug fixes and improved ergonomy The code is also […]
It will soon finally be time for a new release of the IIPMooViewer! To whet your appetite and allow you all to test it out, here is a beta release of the forthcoming version 2.0. This new release contains a huge amount of funky new features and has been upgraded to use the latest web […]
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