Waseda IIIF Image API

The image-tile half of the same Waseda-operated IIIF deployment. info.json declares protocol http://iiif.io/api/image at Image API 2.0 compliance level 1, 256x256 tiles with scale factors to 512, five precomputed sizes, jpg format and native/color/gray qualities. Requests follow the standard IIIF path template /iiif/image/{collection}/{item}/{image}/{region}/{size}/{rotation}/{quality}.{format}. Served as application/ld+json, anonymous.

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aid: waseda:iiif-image
name: Waseda IIIF Image API
x-operator: institution
description: The image-tile half of the same Waseda-operated IIIF deployment. info.json declares protocol
  http://iiif.io/api/image at Image API 2.0 compliance level 1, 256x256 tiles with scale factors to 512,
  five precomputed sizes, jpg format and native/color/gray qualities. Requests follow the standard IIIF
  path template /iiif/image/{collection}/{item}/{image}/{region}/{size}/{rotation}/{quality}.{format}.
  Served as application/ld+json, anonymous.
humanURL: https://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kotenseki/ga_IIIF/about_iiif.html
baseURL: https://iiif.archive.waseda.jp/iiif/image
tags:
- IIIF
- Images
- Cultural Heritage
- Digital Archives
- JSON-LD
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kotenseki/ga_IIIF/about_iiif.html
- type: Specification
  url: https://iiif.io/api/image/2.0/
- type: Examples
  url: examples/waseda-examples.yml