Digital Developments
Find out about the latest developments on our website, including new web tools, library systems developments and digitisation projects. Also, watch out for opportunities to give us feedback and take part in website user activities.
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Wellcome Library launches major digitisation project
The Wellcome Library has announced the launch of an ambitious digitisation project, to provide free, online access to its collections, including archives and papers from Nobel prize-winning scientists Francis Crick, Fred Sanger and Peter Medawar: “Creation of the Wellcome Digital… Continue reading
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Medical London Free iPhone App
Wellcome Collection have produced a free iPhone app to accompany the Medical London: City of Diseases, City of Cures book. The app offers an audiovisual tour of Bloomsbury and the surrounding area, delving into the medical heritage quite literally on… 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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Driving UK Research report launched at Wellcome Trust
A collection of essays compiled by the British Library on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in the digital world was launched at the Wellcome Trust today. The report, titled Driving UK Research: Is copyright a help or a hindrance?looks at the… 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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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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Lossy v. lossless compression in JPEG 2000
The arguments for and against using JPEG 2000 lossy files for long-term preservation are largely centred around two issues: 1) that the original capture image is the true representation of the physical item, and therefore all the information captured at… Continue reading
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Finding a JPEG 2000 conversion tool
It should be stated straight away that we don’t have any programming capacity at the Wellcome Library (or the Wellcome Trust, our parent company). We don’t do any in-house software development, and we don’t use open source software much as… Continue reading
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JPEG 2000 workshop with Richard Clark
In the wake of taking on board the recommendations from the Buckley/Tanner report, we needed to start looking at how we would actually create these JPEG 2000s as part of our digitisation workflow. As the JP2K-UK group meeting showed us,… Continue reading
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Initiating the JP2K-UK Implementation Working Group
By Autumn 2009, we were committed to using the JP2 format for our digitisation projects. However, we knew that the lack of good information and communication between practitioners was a risk factor. First of all, we wanted to know what… Continue reading