U.S. National Library of Medicine Gathers Video Archivists to Advance Video Preservation Technologies

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.