Re: [CODE4LIB] Loris

2013-11-08 Thread Andrew Hankinson
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 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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Loris

2013-11-08 Thread Riley Childs
Looks great! Just one thing, I work in IT and Systems Administration, when I think of a image server I think of FOG or Norton Ghost (desktop imaging programs). Maybe revise the discription? Riley Childs Library Director and IT Admin Junior Charlotte United Christian Academy P: 704-497-2086 (Anyt

Re: [CODE4LIB] Loris

2013-11-08 Thread Jon Stroop
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 L

Re: [CODE4LIB] Loris

2013-11-08 Thread Peter Murray
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 wrote: > c4l, > I was reminded earlier this week at DLF (and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Loris

2013-11-08 Thread Jon Stroop
Seriously! On 11/8/13 6:21 PM, Michael J. Giarlo wrote: Stick to Python, Jon. ;) On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Jon Stroop wrote: Bleh. You know what I meant. On 11/8/13 5:13 PM, Jon Stroop wrote: Whoops, wait. I wrote a formula for Chris Thatcher to add support for IIIF 1.0 to add sup

Re: [CODE4LIB] Loris

2013-11-08 Thread Michael J. Giarlo
Stick to Python, Jon. ;) On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Jon Stroop wrote: > Bleh. You know what I meant. > > > On 11/8/13 5:13 PM, Jon Stroop wrote: > >> Whoops, wait. >> I wrote a formula for Chris Thatcher to add support for IIIF 1.0 to add >> support for OSd. Then I made some changes and ad

Re: [CODE4LIB] Loris

2013-11-08 Thread Jon Stroop
Bleh. You know what I meant. On 11/8/13 5:13 PM, Jon Stroop wrote: Whoops, wait. I wrote a formula for Chris Thatcher to add support for IIIF 1.0 to add support for OSd. Then I made some changes and added support for 1.1. Credit where credit is due -Js On 11/08/2013 04:40 PM, Jon Stroop

Re: [CODE4LIB] Loris

2013-11-08 Thread Ed Summers
Hey, that's great. This work would make a great blog post/article I think. > On Nov 8, 2013, at 5:13 PM, Jon Stroop wrote: > > Whoops, wait. > I wrote a formula for Chris Thatcher to add support for IIIF 1.0 to add > support for OSd. Then I made some changes and added support for 1.1. Credit >

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2013-11-08 Thread jobs
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Re: [CODE4LIB] Loris

2013-11-08 Thread Jon Stroop
Whoops, wait. I wrote a formula for Chris Thatcher to add support for IIIF 1.0 to add support for OSd. Then I made some changes and added support for 1.1. Credit where credit is due -Js On 11/08/2013 04:40 PM, Jon Stroop wrote: Ed, I added support for IIIF syntax to OpenSeadragon: https

Re: [CODE4LIB] Loris

2013-11-08 Thread Jon Stroop
Ed, I added support for IIIF syntax to OpenSeadragon: https://github.com/openseadragon/openseadragon/blob/master/src/iiif1_1tilesource.js so it "just works". Not sure if Ian has cut a release recently, but it's on the master branch anyway. -Js On 11/08/2013 04:00 PM, Edward Summers wrote:

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

2013-11-08 Thread Edward Summers
I’m having trouble understanding who the user of this content you are putting into Omeka is, and what you are expecting them to do with it. But, ok … //Ed On Nov 8, 2013, at 4:22 PM, Kyle Banerjee wrote: >> It is sad to me that converting to PDF for viewing off the Web seems like >> the answer

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

2013-11-08 Thread Kyle Banerjee
> It is sad to me that converting to PDF for viewing off the Web seems like > the answer. Isn’t there a tiling viewer (like Leaflet) that could be used > to render jpeg derivatives of the original tif files in Omeka? > > This should be pretty easy. But the issue with tiling is that the nav process

Re: [CODE4LIB] Loris

2013-11-08 Thread Edward Summers
On Nov 8, 2013, at 3:05 PM, Jon Stroop wrote: > And here's a sample of the server backing OpenSeadragon[2]: > http://goo.gl/Gks6lR Thanks for sharing that Jon. Did you have to do much to get OpenSeadragon to talk iiif? //Ed

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

2013-11-08 Thread Nick Ruest
Echo the above sentiments, and would also mention the Open Library/Internet Archive book reader[1]. We use it in Islandora[2] with Djatoka. -nruest [1] https://github.com/openlibrary/bookreader [2] http://sandbox.islandora.ca/islandora/object/islandora%3A40#page/1/mode/2up On 13-11-08 02:38

[CODE4LIB] Loris

2013-11-08 Thread Jon Stroop
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/pulibra

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

2013-11-08 Thread Simeon Warner
I agree with Ed that going to PDF seems unfortunate. Check out Jon Stroop's Loris [1] for a lightweight implementation of tiling using IIIF [2,3] that the Open Seadragon zoom-pan viewer works over. Cool demo at: http://libimages.princeton.edu/osd-demo/ Cheers, Simeon [1] https://github.com/

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

2013-11-08 Thread Chris Fitzpatrick
Do you need OCR? This script => http://bookscanner.pbworks.com/w/page/45609343/Homer%20bash%20script will OCR a directory of TIFFs (using Tesseract) and build a PDF using Tesseract. It's a little old, but I still use it pretty much every day. I think you'll need to have Ruby 1.9 installed, since t

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

2013-11-08 Thread Roy Tennant
Throwing in my two cents on the IIP Image Server. I've been using it on my photos web site[0] for a while now and it works great. I was also happy to see that there is a version that supports the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) API [1], which I was introduced to at DLF by Tom

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

2013-11-08 Thread Tom Cramer
On Nov 8, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > On the same note, I've had good experiences with using adore djatoka to > render jpeg2000 files. Maybe something better has since come along. I'm out > of touch with this type of technology. For zoomable image rendering (from JPEG2000 or TIFF), y

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

2013-11-08 Thread Karen Coyle
+1 for the viewer concept, and I'll add that viewing & downloading meet different needs and should both be offered if possible. (said because of recently having had to download huge PDFs just to glance at a few pages). kc On 11/8/13 11:10 AM, Edward Summers wrote: It is sad to me that convert

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

2013-11-08 Thread Jon Stroop
I've had to do this with directories full of TIFFs a few times over the years and finally wrote a script. I found that working with ImageMagick alone really taxed the machine (may it's pulling all of the images into memory or something?) and so it was more efficient to make a PDF of each page a

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

2013-11-08 Thread Ethan Gruber
On the same note, I've had good experiences with using adore djatoka to render jpeg2000 files. Maybe something better has since come along. I'm out of touch with this type of technology. On Nov 8, 2013 2:10 PM, "Edward Summers" wrote: > It is sad to me that converting to PDF for viewing off the W

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canadian WordPress Hosting

2013-11-08 Thread Ahniwa Ferrari
I like / use HostGator. They have Canadian offices out of Toronto, you might contact them about servers but I imagine you're out of luck. This Canadian company seems decent: http://www.canspace.ca/web-hosting.html On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Cynthia Ng wrote: > Thanks, but they don't seem

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

2013-11-08 Thread Edward Summers
It is sad to me that converting to PDF for viewing off the Web seems like the answer. Isn’t there a tiling viewer (like Leaflet) that could be used to render jpeg derivatives of the original tif files in Omeka? For an example of using Leaflet (usually used for working with maps) in this way ch

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

2013-11-08 Thread Ethan Gruber
I've done something like this in imagemagick, and it worked quite well, so I can vouch for this workflow. But just to clarify, I presume you will be creating static PDF files to place in the filesystem--not generate a PDF dynamically through Omeka when a user clicks to download a PDF (as in, Omeka

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2013-11-08 Thread Senseney, Megan Finn
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[CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

2013-11-08 Thread Kyle Banerjee
We are in the process of migrating our digital collections from CONTENTdm to Omeka and are trying to figure out what to do about the compound objects -- the vast majority of which are digitized books. The source files are actually hi res tiffs but since ginormous objects broken into hundreds of pi

[CODE4LIB] Call for papers - 2nd North American DDI Conference

2013-11-08 Thread Ludwig, Deborah
A call for papers for the 2nd North American DDI conference is now open. Proposals are due by January 19, 2014. This year's event will be held at Simon Frasier University, Vancouver March 31- April 2, 2013. Conference sponsors include the Sloan Foundation, ICPSR, and Simon Frasier University.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canadian WordPress Hosting

2013-11-08 Thread Cynthia Ng
Thanks, but they don't seem to do shared hosting unless I totally missed it. All I need it for is 1-2 WordPress sites after all... nothing enterprise level. On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Lin, Kun wrote: > iweb.com is at quebec > > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto

[CODE4LIB] Rogers, Skinner, and Van de Sompel to be Featured Vision Speakers at NASIG 29th Annual Conference

2013-11-08 Thread publicist
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Re: [CODE4LIB] Canadian WordPress Hosting

2013-11-08 Thread Lin, Kun
iweb.com is at quebec -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cynthia Ng Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 12:12 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Canadian WordPress Hosting I believe the act says it has to stay in Ca

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canadian WordPress Hosting

2013-11-08 Thread Cynthia Ng
I believe the act says it has to stay in Canada. Hence the need to get local or at least Canadian hosting. On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Riley Childs wrote: > What about another country? > > Riley Childs > Library Director and IT Admin > Junior > Charlotte United Christian Academy > P: 704-49

Re: [CODE4LIB] a note on MARC8 to UTF8 transcoding: Character references

2013-11-08 Thread Robert Haschart
Jonathan, Marc4j does handle this case. It is not implemented in the AnselToUnicode class, instead it exists in the MarcPermissiveStreamReader (and is only enabled when the permissive reading is enabled) I'm not sure there is a good reason that it is done there instead of in the AnselToUnic

[CODE4LIB] REMINDER: code4lib 2014 talk proposals due TODAY

2013-11-08 Thread Emily Lynema
This is your final reminder to submit proposals for Code4Lib 2014 in Raleigh, NC. Talk proposals are due TODAY by 5pm PST. We've got some great proposals in so far, but we still have room for more this year. For details about the conference, see http://code4lib.org/conference/2014. For details ab

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2013-11-08 Thread jobs
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