IIPImage

iipsrv 1.2 released

Ruven — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 19:30:06 +0000

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 [...]

OME-TIFF Whole Slide Microscopy

Ruven — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:45:10 +0000

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 [...]

Image Comparison of Ancient Mummy Portraits: The Appear Project

Ruven — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 21:43:46 +0000

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 [...]

iipsrv 1.1 released

Ruven — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 11:22:37 +0000

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 [...]

IIIFServer

Ruven — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 07:42:50 +0000

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 [...]

IIPImage on Solaris

Ruven — Thu, 11 May 2017 12:54:40 +0000

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 now an Official FreeBSD Package

Ruven — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 09:09:17 +0000

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. [...]

iipsrv 1.0

Ruven — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:35:10 +0000

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. [...]

Web-Based Visualization of Very Large Scientific Astronomy Imagery

Ruven — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 22:00:03 +0000

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. [...]

Current Trends and Future Directions for Digital Imaging in Libraries and Archives

Ruven — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:11:26 +0000

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 ... [...]