Lossless Video Archiving

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 find there two short introductory web pages, that present the thrust of this effort, and a download of four strawman Word documents.

I would encourage you to look over this material, to see if there are aspects of importance to you, which you might help to refine, extend, or redirect. For the endeavor to be ultimately successful, some organizations will need to commit support for selected aspects or the whole.

If interested in this work, a new (rather minimal) discussion forum site has just been set up at http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/vaforum/. Please consider posting to it.