The second conference on digital image archving by The Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) will be held in Washington DC on April 26-29. With tutorials on the 26th, the formal program runs for three days starting on the 27th with a format of a keynote speaker each morning followed by a single-track arrangement of technical papers or poster sessions through the day. There is a generous amount of time for making and reinforcing connections across a wide variety of disciplines; by way of example, the meeting is held with the cooperation of: AIC, ALCTS, CNI, DLF, DPC, ECPA, ISCC, MCN, OCLC, RLG, and SPIE.

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.