We take it for granted that to make a journey is to travel from A to B, but it's not always as simple as that. There are often so many stops and starts along the way, hazards and jams; diversions off the beaten, and back on track, with the odd sight-seeing stop, coffee breaks, etc. and overnight stays along the way. But perhaps our real journey starts at A and ends at Zee - that's life.
If a journey starts at A, which would be our birth, and ends at Z - death, then no one would be capable of writing an autobiography from start to finish because none of us really knows when we'll draw that last breath. Guess we could get pretty close, but maybe not to the end. ... birthday-phone-call
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It’s a heady time for anyone who loves art, as digital imagery makes it possible not just to explore more of a museum’s catalog, but to get closer to an image than ever before. But what if you want to look at more than one museum’s digital images or share them with others?
Until now, that’s involved lots of browser tabs and a sometimes frustrating trip through varying interfaces and image types. But it’s getting even easier to troll through multiple collections and compare what’s inside, reports Shaunacy Ferro for mental_floss, as museums adopt a new technology that frees images from the confines of individual websites.
It’s called the International Image Interoperability Framework, or IIIF, an API that makes digital images more accessible. The API was invented by cultural institutions with the goal of giving scholars an unprecedented amount of access to image repositories regardless of location, and it’s one of the more exciting tools in museum tech today. IIIF lets you zoom in on images, quickly build virtual collections, and share them more easily.
One of its cooler uses, though, is comparison. As Ferro reports, it’s easy to pull a huge collection of newly released IIIF images from both the Getty Museum and the Yale Center for British Art into the Mirador image viewer platform, an online, open-source image viewer that lets you compare images side-by-side. Both museums offer this functionality with a single mouse click.
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