Conclusions

The participants of the symposium generally viewed JPEG 2000 as a favorable development in for access, preservation, and interchange of digital imagery within the library and archive communities. Within the delegation, some were already experimenting with JPEG 2000 as an access format and others as a preservation format. Some were creating new services that were not possible with the prior formats, and others stated that their research in the standard had just begun. All agreed that more work needed to be done to validate the use of the standard as an access, preservation and interchange format, and acknowledged the long learning curve ahead for the professions in adopting the standard. The symposium organizers and the delegation are committed to moving the effort forward.