So what’s the difference between IIIF and IIP? (the protocol, not the server 
implementation)

-Andrew

On Nov 8, 2013, at 9:05 PM, Jon Stroop <[email protected]> wrote:

> It aims to do the same thing...serve big JP2s (and other images) over the 
> web, so from that perspective, yes. But, beyond that, time will tell. One 
> nice thing about coding against a well-thought-out spec is that are lots of 
> implementations from which you can choose[1]--though as far as I know Loris 
> is the only one that supports the IIIF syntax natively (maybe IIP?). We still 
> have Djatoka floating around in a few places here, but, as many people have 
> noted over the years, it takes a lot of shimming to scale it up, and, as far 
> as I know, the project has more or less been abandoned.
> 
> I haven't done too much in the way of benchmarking, but to date don't have 
> any reason to think Loris can't perform just as well. The demo I sent earlier 
> is working against a very large jp2 with small tiles[1] which means a lot of 
> rapid hits on the server, and between that, (a little bit of) JMeter and ab 
> testing, and a fair bit of concurrent use from the c4l community this 
> afternoon, I feel fairly confident about it being able to perform as well as 
> Djatoka in a production environment.
> 
> By the way, you can page through some other images here: 
> http://libimages.princeton.edu/osd-demo/
> 
> Not much of an answer, I realize, but, as I said, time and usage will tell.
> 
> -Js
> 
> 1. http://iiif.io/apps-demos.html
> 2. 
> http://libimages.princeton.edu/loris/pudl0052%2F6131707%2F00000001.jp2/info.json
> 
> 
> On 11/8/13 8:07 PM, Peter Murray wrote:
>> A clarifying question: is Loris effectively a Python-based replacement for 
>> the Java-based djatoka [1] server?
>> 
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
>> [1] http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/djatoka/index.php?title=Main_Page
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 8, 2013, at 3:05 PM, Jon Stroop <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> c4l,
>>> I was reminded earlier this week at DLF (and a few minutes ago by Tom
>>> and Simeon) that I hadn't ever announced a project I've been working for
>>> the least year or so to this list. I showed an early version in a
>>> lightning talk at code4libcon last year.
>>> 
>>> Meet Loris: https://github.com/pulibrary/loris
>>> 
>>> Loris is a Python based image server that implements the IIIF Image API
>>> version 1.1 level 2[1].
>>> 
>>> http://www-sul.stanford.edu/iiif/image-api/1.1/
>>> 
>>> It can take JP2 (if you make Kakadu available to it), TIFF, or JPEG
>>> source images, and hand back JPEG, PNG, TIF, and GIF (why not...).
>>> 
>>> Here's a demo of the server directly: http://goo.gl/8XEmjp
>>> 
>>> And here's a sample of the server backing OpenSeadragon[2]:
>>> http://goo.gl/Gks6lR
>>> 
>>> -Js
>>> 
>>> 1. http://www-sul.stanford.edu/iiif/image-api/1.1/
>>> 2. http://openseadragon.github.io/
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Jon Stroop
>>> Digital Initiatives Programmer/Analyst
>>> Princeton University Library
>>> [email protected]
>> --
>> Peter Murray
>> Assistant Director, Technology Services Development
>> LYRASIS
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