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Peter E. Murray

Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally

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  • Latest Views on JPEG2000 for Presentation and Archiving

    Earlier this month, the JPEG 2000 Implementation Working Group, the Wellcome Trust Library, and the U.K. Digital Preservation Coalition hosted a free one-day seminar called JPEG2000 for the Practitioner. The presentation slides are now linked to the seminar program and is a short report of the event by Christy …

     Posted on  November 29, 2010
     and last updated November 29, 2010
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • LANL Releases Open Source JPEG2000 Image Server

    The lead article in the September/October issue of D-Lib Magazine release yesterday is on djatoka, the open source JPEG2000 Image Server from Los Alamos National Laboratory. The authors, Ryan Chute and Herbert Van de Sompel describe their effort in the article abstract:

    The ISO-standardized JPEG 2000 image format has …

     Posted on  September 16, 2008
     and last updated September 16, 2008
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • Thumbgrabber: a metadata augmentation tool

    Blogging on Peer Review ResearchIn reading a background paper for the American Social History Online portal, I was reacquainted with a paper by Muriel Foulonneau, Thomas Habing and Tim Cole from UIUC called "Automated Capture of Thumbnails and Thumbshots for Use by Metadata Aggregation Services." ((Foulonneau, M., Habing, T.G., Cole, T.W. (2006 …

     Posted on  April 29, 2008
     and last updated April 29, 2008
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Is JPEG Good Enough for Archival Masters?

    On the ImageLib mailing list, Rob Lancefield (Manager of Museum Information Services for Wesleyan University) posted a link to the Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines (UPDIG) for image creators. The introduction says: "These 12 guidelines — provided as a Quick Guide plus an in-depth Complete Guide — aim to clarify the issues …

     Posted on  February 05, 2008
     and last updated February 06, 2008
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Xerox and Library of Congress Collaborate on JPEG2000 for Image Preservation

    Xerox and the Library of Congress announced a joint effort last week to study the use of JPEG 2000. This is welcome news! The project is "designed to help develop guidelines and best practices for digital content," a result that will be most welcome for those of us that want …

     Posted on  October 31, 2007
     and last updated October 31, 2007
  • JPEG XR Could Be Neat, but JPEG2000 is Still Neater

    On Tuesday, the Joint Photographic Expert's Group (a.k.a. "JPEG") announced a new work item for the standardization of Microsoft's HD Photo as JPEG XR (XR is short for "extended range" -- a reference to its improvement over the original JPEG standard). You can read the publicity details in the …

     Posted on  August 04, 2007
     and last updated August 04, 2007
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • A View of Regional Digitization Centers

    As a part of work for an OhioLINK strategic task force, I have been exploring the creation and operation of regional/collaborative/shared digitization centers. This is a report of findings to date after an open call for information. The report is structured with questions to be explored when considering …

     Posted on  June 18, 2007
     and last updated June 18, 2007
     ·  10 minutes reading time
  • Meeting of the JPEG 2000 Interest Group on Jun 23rd in Washington, DC

    There will be a meeting of the LITA JPEG 2000 Interest Group during the annual conference of the American Library Association in Washington, DC, from June 23th from 10:30am to noon. The meeting will be held in the Congressional room in the Doubletree Washington hotel.

    At the meeting we …

     Posted on  June 13, 2007
     and last updated June 13, 2007
  • Seeking Information about Regional Digitization Centers

    I'm looking for information about the formation and management of regional digitization centers for one of the OhioLINK strategic task forces. For our purposes, a "regional digitization center" is a place that has the hardware, software, and human expertise to convert a variety of media to digital form. (We're primarily …

     Posted on  May 18, 2007
     and last updated May 18, 2007
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • Truly Lossless JPEG2000 Compression

    This posting used to have the tag "-- Except for Grayscale?" appended to the end of the title. That is no longer needed; see the bottom of the post for an explanation. We have been implementing University of Michigan's DLXS software, and DLXS uses JPEG2000 for its image masters. We have …

     Posted on  May 03, 2007
     and last updated May 03, 2007
     ·  5 minutes reading time