[aeschylus]

[IIIF Protocol](iiif.io) at work.

It's finally getting easier to build browser-based, zooming viewers for these resources since the protocol has emerged.

At Stanford I work on [Mirador](http://projectmirador.org/), another interface to these resources (with a built-in tiling window manager). I hope that one day all large images on the web will be deep-zoomable through IIIF by default.

The internet archive is another institution with an underappreciated wealth of perennially relevant content. They have hundreds of thousands of JP2s of timeless artworks.

It will be a great boon when decent open source software exists for encoding and decoding JP2.

Those asking about the meaning of symbols/translations might be interested in the recent announcement of the [Open Annotation Protocol Specification](http://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/) by the W3C.