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Diva: A Web-Based High-Resolution Digital Document Viewer

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Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2012)

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This paper introduces the Diva (Document Image Viewer with Ajax) project. Diva is a multi-page image viewer, designed for web-based digital libraries to present documents in a web browser. Key features of Diva include: “lazily loading” only the parts of the document the user is viewing, the ability to “zoom” in and out for viewing high-resolution page images, support for Pyramid TIFF or multi-resolution JPEG 2000 images, a multi-page “grid” view for page images, and HTML5 canvas support for document image rotation and brightness/contrast control. We briefly discuss the history and motivation behind its development, provide an overview of how it compares to other document image viewers, illustrate the different components of Diva and how it works, and provide examples of how this may be used in a digital library context.

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  1. Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Andrew Hankinson, Wendy Liu & Ichiro Fujinaga

  2. RISM Switzerland, Berne, Switzerland

    Laurent Pugin

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  1. Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts, Cyprus University of Technology, 3036, Limassol, Cyprus

    Panayiotis Zaphiris  & Fernando Loizides  & 

  2. School of Informatics, City University of London, Northampton Square, EC1V 0HB, London, UK

    George Buchanan

  3. School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, The University of British Columbia, V6T 1Z3, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Edie Rasmussen

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Hankinson, A., Liu, W., Pugin, L., Fujinaga, I. (2012). Diva: A Web-Based High-Resolution Digital Document Viewer. In: Zaphiris, P., Buchanan, G., Rasmussen, E., Loizides, F. (eds) Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. TPDL 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7489. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33290-6_51

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