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. […]
We’ve just updated our IIPImage 0.9.9 server packages for the latest release of Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin. The packages now automatically install and configure the IIPImage server for use with Apache or Lighttpd. Packages are available for both 32 and 64 bit machines and should be compatible with both Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04. The build […]
How To Install IIPImage on Windows 2008/IIS7 – 2008R2/IIS7.5 It is now finally possible to install IIPImage on IIS7 and IIS7.5! Many thanks indeed to Ricardo Valdiviezo for getting this to work and for sending us the following detailed and illustrated tutorial. Installation First, if it is not already installed, install IIS 7/7.5. Install the […]
Version 0.9.9 of the IIPImage server is now officially released! This is a major new version containing a host of new features, major performance enhancements and numerous bugfixes. Major new features include support for JPEG2000, Memcached and Watermarking. This will be the last in the 0.9.x series: the next release will be the big 1.0! […]
A presentation entitled IIPImage and OldMapsOnline will be given by Petr Zabicka, Head of R&D at the Moravian Library in the Czech Republic, at a one-day seminar entitled JPEG 2000 for the practitioner in London on the 16th November 2010. The Moravian Library and OldMapsOnline use IIPImage to serve JPEG2000 map data and sponsored the […]
The Windows binaries for version 0.9.8 of the IIPImage server have finally been released! These have been compiled for Windows 2000/XP using dev-c++ and mingw. The archive package contains not only the IIPImage server binary, but all the necessary libtiff, libjpeg and fcgi dll’s also. Simply extract the contents into your fcgi-bin directory. Please carefully […]
The latest development code in the IIPImage server subversion repository now includes JPEG2000 support. You can now stream high resolution JPEG2000 as well as TIFF images directly through the IIPImage server. Here is a cool demo example showing a JPEG2000 image streamed directly to an OpenZoom flash client. Several examples using various other clients are […]
Release of version 0.9.8 of the IIPImage server. This release contains some important security fixes and enhancements, improvements in performance and several new features. Notably, image export via the CVT command to arbitrary pixel sizes and support for both the Zoomify and DeepZoom protocols, allowing IIPImage to be used with several 3rd party clients. In […]
This is a small tutorial about how to install IIPImageServer on a Windows machine running Apache 2.2
This tutorial is intended for person with a minimum knowledge of configuration files and with a Windows server 😉 […]
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