Thanks, Ethan. That's pretty much where I've been headed so far, too, in what seems otherwise to be close to a toss-up; the current-view outline box on small reference image is a big plus.
Any other comments out there? Rob On 9/17/2009 12:21 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > Hi Rob, > > I have used both. I prefer the viewer based on IIPMooViewer purely for > aesthetic reasons. I like the thumbnail in the corner with the small box > that shows one's zoomed position on the current layer and one's ability to > navigate with that box. There's also the button to export whatever is in > the viewer to a downloadable jpg, so that's potentially useful to patrons. > > Ethan Gruber > University of Virginia Library > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Rob Lancefield on lists < > lists at lancefield.net> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Any djatoka users out there? >> >> We're on the brink of deciding between two candidates as open-source >> AJAX client implementations for working with navigable images served >> with resolution on demand by djatoka server and a JPEG 2000 back-end. >> >> The two candidates are Djatoka OpenURL, based on OpenLayers, and Djatoka >> Viewer, based on IIPMooViewer. We have test pages up and running with >> both, and based on lots of search-engine-findable resources, both seem >> like good candidates based on functional needs and general factors; so I >> thought I'd ask here if anyone has actually been using either or both. >> >> Any hands-on tales of use cases or applications in museum contexts that >> might suggest one of these tools would be preferable to the other? >> >> thanks, >> Rob >> >> -- >> Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu) >> Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections >> Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University >> 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA >> 860.685.2965 >> // >> President, Museum Computer Network (MCN), <http://www.mcn.edu> >> The membership organization for museum information professionals >> _______________________________________________ >> You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer >> Network (http://www.mcn.edu) >> >> To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu >> >> To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: >> http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l >> >> The MCN-L archives can be found at: >> http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ >> > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ >
