Why? At KIK-IRPA we have an exceptionally large collection of images, ranging from official photos taken by our photographers to microscopic imagery/x-rays/cross-sections/... All these images are in one [...]
What seemed to be the most complicated task to achieve was the presentation API, responsible for supplying manifests which can be understoof by IIIF tools/viewers to load content.
We use a combination of Python with NIPS through libvips to prepare our image collection for IIIF. We've chosen to go with pyramidal TIF format instead of JPEG2000, the [...]
We have tested several image servers, but eventually our 2 main contenders were : Cantaloupe IIIF server, fairly new server (https://medusa-project.github.io/cantaloupe) IIPimage server which is a long-standing image server that [...]
