[Web4lib] ALA Annual: "Access, Preservation, and Interchange: Digital Imaging with JPEG 2000" (Saturday, June 25)

[Peter Murray]

  Access, Preservation, and Interchange: Digital Imaging with JPEG 2000

June 25, 2005, 8:30 - noon. Chicago, IL (Hotel Intercontinental room:
Empire Ballroom)

The newly-formed j2k Interest Group <http://j2kArcLib.info/j2kIG/>
within the Library and Information Technology Association
<http://www.lita.org/> of the American Library Association
<http://www.ala.org/> will be conducting a program at the 2005 Annual
Conference <http://www.ala.org/annual/> with the title "Access,
Preservation, and Interchange: Digital Imaging with JPEG 2000". Through
this program, attendees will:

    * Understand the goals of this new imaging standard, the effect of
      those goals on other segments of society, and the impact the
      standard can have on digital imagery in libraries
    * Learn about the technology underpinnings of JPEG 2000 (e.g.,
      wavelet compression offering better efficiency and bitwise
      lossless compression, decoding with different output resolutions,
      progressive delivery, ROI <http://j2kArcLib.info/glossary#term53>
      encoding, flexible file format)
    * Contribute to a process for bringing JPEG 2000 into common
      practice in libraries and archives


    Program Overview

    * *What is JPEG 2000? Where/Who did it come from? ("Why should I
      care?")* A tutorial conducted by Robert Buckley, Research Fellow
      at Xerox Corporation and member of the JPEG 2000 Committee (ISO
      <http://j2kArcLib.info/glossary#term54>/ITU
      <http://j2kArcLib.info/glossary#term56> JTC 1
      <http://j2kArcLib.info/glossary#term57>/SC 29
      <http://j2kArcLib.info/glossary#term58>), describing the standard
      and its impact on libraries and archives.
    * *Demonstrations/Discussions of JPEG 2000 for Access, for
      Interchange, and for Preservation.* Presentations by leading
      vendors providing tools and services that make use of JPEG 2000
      technology
    * *Panel of JPEG 2000 Practitioners.* .
    * *Report on the State of Adoption.* Building on the work of the
      Symposium on the Adoption of JPEG 2000 in Libraries and Archives
      <http://j2kArcLib.info/symposium/report/>, a review of how the
      standard has been applied in our field, work currently underway,
      and an outline of future research and activities.
    * /Post-presentation business meeting:/ Organizing the JPEG 2000
      community within libraries. What is desired from an image
      compression scheme? What ancillary services, such as metadata
      boxes, are important to our field?


    Outline

8:30 - 8:40 	Peter Murray
OhioLINK 	*Introductions*
8:40 - 9:40 	Robert Buckley
Xerox
	*JPEG 2000 Tutorial*
9:40 - 10:15 	LuraTech, Inc.
Aware, Inc.
Sand Codex, LLC 	*Demonstrations of JPEG 2000*
10:15 - 11:00 	*Panel of Practitioners*
Wangyal Shawa
Princeton 	JPEG 2000 for Geospatial Data
Patrick McGlamery
Univ of Connecticut 	Olson-Melville Project, Austria-Hungarian Maps,
Connecticut History Online phase 2
/TBD/ 	Vanatova prototype for collaborative indexing, annotation and
discussion of audiovisual content over high bandwidth networks

11:00 - 11:30 	Peter Murray
OhioLINK 	*Status of Adoption Effort*
11:30 - 12:00 	*Business Meeting*

-- 
Peter Murray                       http://www.pandc.org/peter/work/
Assistant Director, Multimedia Systems  tel:+1-614-728-3600;ext=338
OhioLINK: the Ohio Library and Information Network   Columbus, Ohio