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  • Simplifying our JPEG2000 conversion workflow

    09/09/2011

    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

  • Preserving our digital assets #1 – SDB4

    04/07/2011

    The successful long term management of digital assets is a key concern for us as we build our digital resource. Until recently, we did not have a dedicated system in use for storing and managing master files for any digitised… Continue reading

  • ICC profiles and LuraWave

    27/05/2011

    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

  • 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

  • Guest post: JPEG2000 recipes for the Aware encoder

    10/09/2010

    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

  • Finding a JPEG 2000 conversion tool

    06/07/2010

    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