The University of Connecticut Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center was awarded $40,000 by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation in December 2001 to clean and make accessible a series of hand-written but subsequently water-damaged cards produced by the poet Charles Olson during his effort to transcribe the marginalia in hundreds of books owned by Herman Melville. The renovated cards are scanned at a resolution of 600 DPI, then encoded into JP2 files and bundled with an Encoded Archival Description (EAD) XML box, TEI Lite XML box, and a PDF UUID box. Using Aware's toolkit, the images are delivered to the user's web browser through a server-side transformation to JPEGs.

This is taken from an article in The Louisiana Library Network Newsletter (v13, n1, 2005).

LOUISiana Digital Library Update
by Pat Vince

How many times have you looked at an image in a digital library and wished you could zoom in for a closer look? Now LOUIS is offering the JPEG2000 Extension for CONTENTdm. The JPEG2000 Extension converts TIFF and JPEG files to JPEG2000 files during the import process to Acquisition Station. JPEG2000 allows maps, artworks, architectural drawings, paintings and other large image formats to be presented in a standard Web browser with a zoom and pan toolbar feature. Institutions benefit from using JPEG2000 by having more flexibility in selecting large format items for inclusion in the digital library. Users benefit from higher quality, detailed images without the delays of waiting for large images to be transmitted and without the need for downloading any special viewer. JPEG2000 items can be saved to “My Favorites,” in the LOUISiana Digital Library and used in slide shows to view and compare details among primary source materials.

By Ian Gilmour of Media Matters. From the abstract: Motion-JPEG2000 lossless data reduction is implemented as a key technology for reducing file size in storage and for reducing data rates in networked file transfer.

An August 1, 2005 invitational meeting gathered about fifty archivists and technologists involved in the long term preservation of videos and films. The meeting, "Getting to Disk-based Lossless Digital Video Compression", was hosted by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, itself much involved in moving image preservation.

Participants considered the potential of lossless, on-disk video storage in light of the "twilight of tape" as a cost-effective storage media. Other speakers reviewed current video metadata standards, and recent work in automatic extraction of metadata from video. The meeting included the first public demonstration of real-time, full-screen, mathematically-lossless video compression and decompression based on the Motion JPEG 2000 (MJ2) standard.