A press release outlining Simon Cope's participation in the JPEG 2000 Symposium.

"ER Mapper has released the source code to its ECW JPEG 2000 Software Development Kit (SDK). The ECW JPEG 2000 SDK allows software developers to add support for large geospatial images in ECW and JPEG 2000 format to their applications. ER Mapper’s ECW image format is the industry standard for large (multi-terabyte) geospatial images." Plus commentary from Directions Magazine.

Press release from Xerox regarding Rob Buckley's tutorial address at the JPEG 2000 symposium.

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.

Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC) has announced a new dual-channel video compression/decompression board, the Orion, available in both PMC and PCI form factors for use in VME, CompactPCI and desktop PCI systems. The Orion features dual on-board JPEG 2000 engines to support full-frame encoding of standard 625-line PAL or 525-line NTSC composite video. [...]

"GeoJasper is the FREE Geo supporting command line transcoder between JPEG2000 and other formats. i.e. Converts image data from one format to another correctly transferring Geo information between GeoTiff and GeoJp2™ (GeoJpeg2000). It supports striped as well as tiled TIFF images and TIFF images geo-referenced through World Files (TFW). Moreover it may combine three 1 band TIFFs into one RGB image. There are batch files supplied within the distribution to simplify command line execution.

"This software is FREE and Open Source... It's based on JasPer library and follows it's respective licence, which is totally free now! GeoJP2™ is a trademark of Mapping Science, Inc. The GeoJP2™ format is the intellectual property of Mapping Science, Inc."

There is also more information on GeoJP2 on the website.

The JasPer Project is an open-source initiative to provide a free software-based reference implementation of the codec specified in the JPEG-2000 Part-1 standard (i.e., ISO/IEC 15444-1). This project was started as a collaborative effort between Image Power, Inc. and the University of British Columbia. Presently, the ongoing maintenance and development of the JasPer software is being coordinated by its principal author, Michael Adams

As a follow-on to last summer's gathering of video archivists and
technologists here at the National Library of Medicine, I have been
considering ways to encourage lossless video encoding for preservation,
with a particular interest in JPEG 2000 frame encodings.

Towards that end, and following a suggestion by Ron Murray at the
Library of Congress about MPEG-A as an attractive vehicle for
cross-cutting standards, I've drafted a "strawman" set of documents for
the community's consideration, which may be found at
http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/VideoArchivists2005/follow-on.html. You will

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.

"What we have released is an archive of the HiRISE Experiment Data Records (EDRs) and Reduced Data Records (RDRs). EDRs are in the *.IMG file format and represent individual CCD channels (remember, there are 14 CCDs in the HiRISE camera and two channels per CCD, for a total of 28 channels). These EDRs are cleaned up, calibrated, stitched together, and mapped to Mars’ geometry, resulting in the RDR products. RDRs are in the *.JP2 and *.LBL formats. JPEG2000 is the technology that enables us to offer our gigantic images to the scientific community and the public in a timely and efficient manner. An observation’s image data are in the *.JP2 file and its meta data are in the detached *.LBL files. To view these products, JPEG2000 compatible software is required (see our site for a list of offerings)."