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). […]
The Cranach Digital Archive
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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 […]
Virtual Nanoscopy: Ultra-high resolution electron microscopy with IIPImage
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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Responsive Images using IIPImage
The proliferation of mobile devices has made responsive web design one of the hottest topics in web design. Modern web sites need to be usable on a large range of screen resolutions and sizes, from low resolution mobile devices to high resolution monitors […]
IIPImage Server for Mac OS X
A binary distribution is now available for Mac OS X users! Both Desktop and Server editions of recent releases include Apache by default, making installation of IIPImage very straightforward. This binary has been statically compiled with libtiff4 (including BigTIFF support), libjpeg8 and libmemcached to enable users to have IIPImage up and running instantly without the […]
IIPImage Analytics
We now have a basic analytics tool for IIPImage! IIPAnalyze allows you to analyze incoming IIP protocol image requests to the IIPImage server. It can tell you which are the most viewed regions of a particular image and display histograms showing tile usage, globally or per resolution level. It can also output image hotspot image […]
One Billion Stars and IIPImage
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 […]
