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Yes, it's my understanding that OpenSeaDragon is basically a JavaScript implementation of the OpenZoom flash code...and that they work on roughly the same DZI files. But my knowledge of OpenZoom is very limited, so take that with a grain of salt. //Ed On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Raymond Yee <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Thanks, Ed, for pointing out OpenSeaDragon -- I didn't know about it. > I've been aware of another similar open source project: > > http://www.openzoom.org/ > > that makes use of Flash -- though the openzoom github repo has > openzoom.js (https://github.com/openzoom/openzoom.js). I've used the > Python toolkit of openzoom (https://github.com/openzoom/deepzoom.py) to > generate tiles. > > -Raymond > > On 1/31/12 8:59 AM, Ed Summers wrote: >> If by digital objects you mean images we've been getting a lot of >> mileage out of OpenSeaDragon [1] at the Library of Congress. You do >> have to pre-generate the deep-zoom-files DZI [2] or you can implement >> your own server side tiling code to do it on the fly. >> >> As a space vs time trade off we generate tiles on the fly in >> Chronicling America [3], since there are millions of newspaper page >> images. But in the World Digital Library [4] we generate DZI files. >> Chris Thatcher, one of the developers at LC has a fork of the codeplex >> repo on GitHub [5], which we are applying some fixes to, since GitHub >> is alot easier to navigate and use than Codeplex. >> >> If you are curious here are some samples of the viewer in action: >> >> http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1912-01-31/ed-1/seq-1/ >> http://www.wdl.org/en/item/4106/zoom/#group=1&page=4 >> >> //Ed >> >> [1] http://openseadragon.codeplex.com/ >> [2] https://github.com/openzoom/deepzoom.py >> [3] http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov >> [4] http://wdl.org >> [5] https://github.com/thatcher/openseadragon >