Good to know, thanks!


So, we just stick with jp2.zip



And I love the IA magic :)





On Fri, 27 Jan 2017, at 07:40 AM, Andrea Zanni wrote:

> AFAIK, IA always produce the jp2 files by himself.

> I suggest GLAMs to upload zipped folders of jpegs, 

> so IA can do his magic and produce a book viewer and a PDF as well as
> the jp2.
> 

> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 12:10 AM, Sam Wilson
> <s...@samwilson.id.au> wrote:
>> __

>> 

>> 

>> 

>> On Thu, 26 Jan 2017, at 06:35 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote:

>>> The problem for me is that librarians and other people who are
>>> genuinely interested in Wikisource and IA
>>> don't understand why

>>> * they upload a good scan on IA

>>> * see a good book on IA, via the viewer

>>> * get an horrible djvu on Wikisource. 

>>> 

>>> This is the issue we should try to solve, otherwise we will lose a
>>> potential important ally, content and new userbase.
>>> Aubrey

>>> 

>> 

>> 

>> Definitely!

>> 

>> On a related note: most (all?) IA-scanned books have e.g. *_jp2.zip
>> files containing all the original scan images, but is there any
>> standard for user-uploaded books? Like your librarians above, I
>> assume they're uploading individual jpg/png files? Do these get
>> combined into a single zip? I'm thinking that they don't, and that
>> ia-upload needs to provide the option of using any of the following
>> sources:
>>  * .djvu
>>  * _jp2.zip (there's also _jpg.zip and _raw_jp2.zip, but I guess we
>>    don't need to use them?)
>>  * *.jpg + *.jp2 + *.png (i.e. use all images in the item, apart from
>>    _cover_image.jpg)
>>  * .pdf
>> 

>> Sound complete? Or are there other ways?

>> 

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