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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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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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ICC profiles and LuraWave
Johan van der Knijff’s long-awaited D-Lib paper JPEG 2000 for long term preservation: JP2 as a preservation format, has now come out. In this paper he mentions the various ways LuraWave has handled colour profile information, and I thought it… Continue reading
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Guest post: Color in JP2
Rob Buckley, colour imaging expert and author of JPEG 2000 as a Preservation and Access Format for the Wellcome Library [pdf], writes about the implementation of colour space metadata in the JP2 format and planned changes to the specification to… Continue reading
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TIFF to JPEG 2000 backlog, losslessness, and a perplexing speed issue
In October 2010 we initiated our “TIFF to JPEG 2000 backlog project”, an endeavor to convert all the legacy images that make up our current image archive (Wellcome Images), as well as around 120,000 images that had been created during… 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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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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Guest post: Ensuring the suitability of JPEG 2000 for preservation
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
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Wellcome Trust hosts JPEG 2000 seminar
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
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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