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http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/icv/js/bdlss.icv.page.js http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/icv/js/bdlss.icv.page.js seems to lead to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seadra

http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/icv/js/bdlss.icv.page.js http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/icv/js/bdlss.icv.page.js seems to lead to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seadragon_Software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seadragon_Software and more specifically http://openseadragon.github.io/ http://openseadragon.github.io/

ygra 13y ago
I'm still surprised how "right" (for lack of a better word) Seadragon feels when interacting. Where things like Google Maps, Leaflet, Openlayers, etc. all seem to get you into, out of, and around a map with a minimum amount of fuzz, somehow the "springy" feel feels more natural to me. Bing Maps also seems to be built with Seadragon. A bit sad that Microsoft closed Live Labs – a lot of cool things came from there. Fun fact: Ian Gilman, who maintains OpenSeadragon now, was one of the original creators of Seadragon.
- acdha 13y ago
  Yes - OpenSeadragon is great. We use it for the imagery on http://wdl.org http://wdl.org, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov and parts of the [much larger] collections on http://loc.gov http://loc.gov and I'm quite happy with it as an infrequent contributor. For awhile it seemed like the project was languishing but in the last year or so it's really picked up steam with significant quality and performance improvements, particularly on mobile browsers, API and doc cleanups and some new features like rotation. Just recently Ian started collecting instructions for the other side of creating images – if you want to try something like this, there are some simple command-line tools: http://openseadragon.github.io/examples/creating-zooming-images/ http://openseadragon.github.io/examples/creating-zooming-ima... One particularly interesting project is https://github.com/zoomhub/zoomhub https://github.com/zoomhub/zoomhub which is trying to be an open equivalent to Microsoft's zoom.it service.

ygra 13y ago

I'm still surprised how "right" (for lack of a better word) Seadragon feels when interacting. Where things like Google Maps, Leaflet, Openlayers, etc. all seem to get you into, out of, and around a map with a minimum amount of fuzz, somehow the "springy" feel feels more natural to me. Bing Maps also seems to be built with Seadragon. A bit sad that Microsoft closed Live Labs – a lot of cool things came from there. Fun fact: Ian Gilman, who maintains OpenSeadragon now, was one of the original creators of Seadragon.

acdha 13y ago
Yes - OpenSeadragon is great. We use it for the imagery on http://wdl.org http://wdl.org, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov and parts of the [much larger] collections on http://loc.gov http://loc.gov and I'm quite happy with it as an infrequent contributor. For awhile it seemed like the project was languishing but in the last year or so it's really picked up steam with significant quality and performance improvements, particularly on mobile browsers, API and doc cleanups and some new features like rotation. Just recently Ian started collecting instructions for the other side of creating images – if you want to try something like this, there are some simple command-line tools: http://openseadragon.github.io/examples/creating-zooming-images/ http://openseadragon.github.io/examples/creating-zooming-ima... One particularly interesting project is https://github.com/zoomhub/zoomhub https://github.com/zoomhub/zoomhub which is trying to be an open equivalent to Microsoft's zoom.it service.