How is CONTENTdm surfacing images to the end-user?
Applies to
- CONTENTdm (classic version)
Answer
Most browsers cannot natively handle the display of JPEG2000 files. CONTENTdm (classic version) leverages the IIIF API to render a JPEG tileset for the expanded view.
The preview image, created by the Project Client, is also JPEG.
In either case, the image being viewed by the end-user is a JPEG; however, the hosted file will be the file format that was uploaded to CONTENTdm (classic version). The JPEG2000 file can always be downloaded directly by using the API.
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