Hi Rod, That's an impressive viewer, especially if it isn't too tightly coupled to a particular backend! It would be great to have a look at the code if you're able to share. Many thanks, Eoghan On 24 February 2013 08:21, Rod McFarland <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I've been working in isolation for a while on a book viewer, now soft > launched at http://bcbib.library.ubc.ca . It is a tiling viewer like > Diva, with some attempts at making it iPad-friendly. The site uses a > CONTENTdm + ElasticSearch backend, but the viewer itself is agnostic about > that stuff as long as the data server can speak its language (supply > in-book search results, and provide tiles for a given > document/page/x/y/scale/rotation). I'm a bit distracted on a different > project now, but I wouldn't mind sharing the code as it is, if you're > interested in adapting it. > > Rod > > > On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:50:51 -0800, Kyle Banerjee <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > >We have a few digitized books, (some of them are old -- we're talking 500 > >years). Sizes are all over the place but the big ones are easily the size > >of a large briefcase. > > > >We want to make these works more accessible/usable and there's some demand > >to make them available for tablets. What experience do people have with > >stuff like that, and what software/services/methods do you recommend? > > > >Source files are 600 dpi uncompressed tiffs so they're pretty big and > >there's nothing special about a book being over 10GB in size. Thanks, > > > >kyle >