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  • Guest post: LoC response to discussion on long-term preservation of JPEG 2000

    20/12/2010

    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

  • Virtual Heaven

    13/12/2010

    Where do medical web sites go when they die? Well, provided they have granted the Wellcome Library permission, we can ‘freeze’ them in the UK Web Archivewhere they can be forever young and accessible. The Wellcome Library is currently busy… Continue reading

  • Suitability of JPEG2000 for preservation, help us do some further work

    08/12/2010

    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

  • Workflow Tools Workshop in Bath, 30 November 2010

    05/12/2010

    On a freezing cold November day I travelled down to Bath to attend a one-day event run by UKOLN as part of the DevCSI program. Mahendra Mahey, Research Office with UKOLN, was our host for the day. What may seem… Continue reading

  • Launch of JAINpedia

    03/12/2010

    Launched at an event at the Victoria and Albert Museum on the 18th of November was JAINpedia: a project to create an online, accessible resource devoted to the Jain religion. JAINpedia is the first such project to work with the… Continue reading

  • Guest post: Ensuring the suitability of JPEG 2000 for preservation

    02/12/2010

    Johan van der Knijff, of the KB/National Library of the Netherlands, follows up his presentation at the JPEG 2000 seminar with a guest blog post on long-term preservation of JPEG 2000. In my presentation during the JPEG 2000 seminar [pdf]… Continue reading

  • Wellcome Trust hosts JPEG 2000 seminar

    24/11/2010

    The JPEG 2000 for the Practitioner seminar was hosted by the Wellcome Trust on 16 November, 2010. This was organised by the Wellcome Library, and achieved a sell-out crowd of over 80 people. The aim of the seminar was to… Continue reading

  • JPEG 2000 seminar – edited highlights #1

      JPEG 2000 for the Practitioner seminar attracted a full house of 80+ delegates on 16 November 2010 at the Wellcome Trust. The aim of the seminar was to look at specific case studies of JPEG 2000 use, to explain… Continue reading

  • JPEG 2000 seminar – edited highlights #2

    This blog post continues my summary of the JPEG 2000 for the Practitioner Seminar (the edited highlights of the first five presentations can be seen in a previous blog post). Following Svein Arne Brygfjeld’s discussion of the  National Library of… Continue reading

  • 100,000 image milestone, and how we did it

    29/10/2010

    A significant milestone was reached this week, with 100,000 images of Crick papers photographed. The Crick collection, previously described, includes around 285,000 images – over half the total amount to be digitised as part of the Archives digitisation project over… Continue reading