JPEG 2000 program at the American Library Association Annual Conference

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

The newly-formed j2k Interest Group within the Library and Information Technology Association of the American Library Association will be conducting a program at the 2005 Annual Conference 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 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/ITU JTC 1/SC 29), 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, 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?

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