Tom Crane

@fractos - we need to add an example of a manifest that provides a level0 profile thumbnail service. Ideally this could be the new DLCS but I will try to...

...and capturing the thumbnail selection algorithm in manifesto means it can be improved over time, or provide more than one strategy depending on need.

We could do this programmatically as we have the information already (in the METS). We just need somewhere to store the information for quick access when generating collections.

Proposed thumbnail flow (first draft) https://gist.github.com/tomcrane/093c6281d74b3bc8f59d#file-thumbnail-selection-md

I now have an implementation of getThumbnail as described above which the UV could adopt, but it's not quite finished; it's optimised for inline level 0 thumbnail services like [1]....

This isn't finished yet, and needs more testing, but comments welcome: http://tomcrane.github.io/iiif-expts/getthumbnail/

Yes, I intend to allow any of (preferred, min, max) to take a size { width: .., height: ..} as well as integers. Wanted to get the logic right for...

Has this been superseded through adoption of libraries that pick appropriate thumbs? It's still an important issue for user experience - thumbs load fast if you use advertised sizes -...

If it's still an issue then it's still needed. Does manifesto (or other libraries) include this though - given a resource (e.g., a canvas), get an appropriate string from a...

Interesting feature to put alongside rotation in the UV's UI https://github.com/openseadragon/openseadragon/issues/916