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Free conference on digital libraries and JPEG2000
The Wellcome Library and the Digital Preservation Coalition are co-hosting a free one-day conference, Current Trends and Future Directions for Digital Imaging, on 10 November 2014 to be held at the Wellcome Trust. This event is free and open to anyone… Continue reading
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Future migration of JPEG2000
Those of us who work with digital assets know that one day we’ll face format obsolescence. The formats we have in our care will no longer be rendered by the applications that created them or by readily obtainable alternatives. This… Continue reading
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The JPEG2000 problem for this week
JPEG2000 isn’t the easiest of formats to disseminate. Browsers typically handle the format with difficulty and then require plugins or extensions to render the format. We don’t want our users to have to download anything just to be able to… Continue reading
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Wellcome Library to use JPEG2000 image format
JPEG2000 is a relatively new image file format, created by the JPEG Committee in 2000. JPEG2000, despite its name, is not a JPEG format, but utilises a clever compression technology that maximises quality while minimizing file sizes. The Wellcome Library,… Continue reading
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Guest post: JPEG2000 recipes for the Aware encoder
As our first guest poster, Bill Comstock, Head of Imaging Services at Harvard College Library, writes about the specific “recipes” used at Harvard for producing JPEG2000 images. I needed help remembering when it was that we began making JPEG2000 images.… Continue reading
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Suitability of JPEG2000 for preservation, help us do some further work
Following on from Johan van der Knijff’s guest post on this blog we were interested in following up issues that Johan raised. If, as Johan suggests, there are some gaps in the tool sets available for working with JPEG2000 in… Continue reading
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Simplifying our JPEG2000 conversion workflow
Over the summer, we have been working to streamline our JPEG 2000 conversion workflow. With the help of software developers from Genisys – one of the Trust’s strategic IT development and support partners – we have put the LuraWave command… Continue reading
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Guest post: LoC response to discussion on long-term preservation of JPEG 2000
Carl Fleischhauer, Program Officer at NDIIPP, Library of Congress, responds to recent posts from Johan van der Knijff and the Wellcome Library regarding long-term preservation of JPEG 2000. Both posts mentioned the need to rate the JPEG 2000 format for… Continue reading
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Future migration of JPEG 2000 blog post
We announced the creation of our JPEG 2000 blog last month, and since then we have posted on several aspects of our experiences implementing the format, including setting up a Working Group around JPEG 2000 use in the library, museum… Continue reading
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Developing a player for the Wellcome Digital Library
Previous posts here have covered the digitisation of books and archives and the storage of the resulting files (mostly JPEG2000 images, but some video and audio too). Now it’s time to figure out how visitors to the Wellcome Library site… Continue reading