.. Copyright © 2015 Lukas Rosenthaler, Benjamin Geer, Ivan Subotic,
   Tobias Schweizer, André Kilchenmann, and Sepideh Alassi.

   This file is part of Knora.

   Knora is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published
   by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
   (at your option) any later version.

   Knora is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public
   License along with Knora.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

.. _sipi:

####
Sipi
####

Sipi is a high-performance media server written in C++, for serving and
converting binary media files such as images and video. Sipi can efficiently
convert between many different formats on demand, preserving embedded
metadata, and implements the
`International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF)`_. Knora is designed
to use Sipi for converting and serving media files.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   setup-sipi-for-knora
   sipi-and-knora


.. _International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF): http://iiif.io/