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...
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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 Nati...
Thumbgrabber: a metadata augmentation tool
In 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...
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 Dig...
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 ...
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...
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 center...
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 2...
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 purpo...
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 e...