JPEG 2000 Summit Workshop

The Library of Congress hosted a JPEG 2000 Summit on May 12-13, 2011, sponsored by the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative with support from the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDDIIPP). The summit brought together JPEG 2000 users, developers, and other interested parties for information sharing, discussion, and planning related to the current state of JPEG 2000 in the cultural heritage community. Many attendees represented non-profit and Federal institutions engaged in digitizing cultural heritage materials. Speakers included a variety of experts and representatives of institutions currently employing JPEG 2000 or researching the benefits/risks of using the format as part of their workflow.

Presentations

• The Benefits of JPEG 2000, Robert Buckley, University of Rochester/NewMarket Imaging (PDF, 2.14 MB)
• Where We Are Today: An Update to the UConn Survey on JPEG 2000 Implementation for Still Images, David B. Lowe and Michael J. Bennett, University of Connecticut Libraries (PDF, 145 KB)
• JPEG 2000 and the National Digital Newspaper Program, Deborah Thomas, Library of Congress (PDF, 825 KB)
• Report from the Wellcome Library and the JP2K-UK Group, Christy Henshaw, Wellcome Digital Library (PDF, 1.24 MB)
• Using PSNR Thresholds to Modulate the Degree of Lossy Compression in JPEG 2000 Files, Bill Comstock, Harvard University (PDF, 6.39 MB)
• JPEG 2000 and Google Books, Jeff Breidenbach, Google (PDF, 1.35 MB)
• JPEG 2000 in Moving Image Archiving, James Snyder, Library of Congress (PDF, 328 KB)
• The British Library JPEG 2000 Profile for Bulk Digitization, Sean Martin, British Library and Robert Buckley, University of Rochester/NewMarket Imaging (PDF, 263 KB)
• JPEG 2000 Specifications for the National Library of the Czech Republic, Bedrich Vychodil, National Library of the Czech Republic (PDF, 4.47 MB)
• JPEG 2000 in Medical Imaging, Digital Cinema and Geospatial Applications, Bernard Brower, ITT Geospatial Systems (PDF, 1.07 MB)

Useful Information

• UConn Survey from 2008 that was developed and used to gauge JPEG2000 acceptance status among cultural heritage institutions
• Commissioned report:JPEG 2000 as a Preservation and Access Format for the Wellcome Trust Library
• JPEG 2000 at the Wellcome Library blog
• Starter information on the JPEG 2000 file format, with links to many more useful resources
• The official JPEG 2000 webpage
• Wikipedia article on JPEG 2000
• The UK JPEG2000 Implementation Working Group (JP2K-UK)
• JPEG 2000 Profile for the National Digital Newspaper Program
• Wellcome Library Seminar, 2010: JPEG 2000 for the Practitioner, Part 1 and Part 2
• JPEG 2000 for Long-term Preservation: JP2 as a Preservation Format by Johan van der Knijff, National Library of the Netherlands, D-Lib Magazine, Vol 17, No 5/6
• JPEG2000 Implementation at Library and Archives Canada by Pierre Desrochers and Brian Thurgood
• The JPEG2000 Alliance

Tools and Utilities

• National Digital Newspaper Program's open source newspaper viewer software
• IrfanView is a freeware image viewing application (Windows) that supports JPEG2000 rendering. You'll need all the plugins.
• LuraTech and Aware, Inc. are commercial vendors of image encoding and server-side decoding softwares
• JPEG 2000 Software and Test Data
• Accusoft Pegasus
• Djatoka JPEG 2000 Image Server
• erdas
• IIPImage Software and IIPImage help
• JasPer
• Kakadu software
• LeadTools
• Lizardtech
• OptimiData
• Snowbound

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Working Groups

Still Image Working Group
This group is involved in a cooperative effort to develop common digitization guidelines for still image materials.

Audio-Visual Working Group
The goal for this working group is to identify, establish, and disseminate information about standards and practices for the digital reformatting of audio-visual materials by federal agencies.