Symposium on the Adoption of JPEG 2000 in Archives and Libraries

The symposium organizers view JPEG 2000 as both an evolutionary progression of formats and a revolutionary step in the advancement of best practices that will sustain the library and archive communities for a long period of time. On November 4-5, 2004, the invited speakers and delegates considered the adoption of the JPEG 2000 standard by libraries and archives. The symposium was arranged in an arc to take delegates from little assumed knowledge of the JPEG 2000 standard, through an awareness of how it can be used, to a point where a discussion could occur on stewarding the critical aspects of the standard. The result was a dialog that started the process of the adoption of this important standard into best practices, products, and services that meet the unique needs of the library and archive communities.

Fourty-seven delegates, representing members of the library and archives communities, developers of the JPEG 2000 standard, selected vendors, and image and signal processing scientists, attended the symposium. Among those invited were representatives from the Council of Library and Information Resources, Digital Library Federation, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Library of Congress, Museum Computer Network, Society of American Archivists, American Library Association, the Getty Research Institute, and a number of librarians and archivists working in the digital imaging arena. The array of delegates was designed to represent several communities of digital imaging: policy makers and practitioners, digital imaging specialists and software engineers, image/signal processing scientists and end users of the standards, and vendors as well as users of products.