Hi Perian, Replacing your high-quality derivative TIFFs with JPEG 2000 may make sense now. It would save space, especially if one JPEG 2000 file can replace multiple derivative TIFFs. I don't know when you last looked at JPEG 2000, but interest in it continues to grow and more and more of that interest is being converted into action. Another response to your post mentioned the Wellcome Library Report; as far as I know, they are planning to go to the next step and implement the recommendations in the report and use JPEG 2000. NDNP has been using JPEG 2000 for three years now; they're up to 1.7M production master last time I looked, all encoded using JPEG 2000.
Rob Buckley -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Perian Sully Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 6:12 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: [MCN-L] ye olde TIF vs. JPEG2000 debate Howdy everyone: I'm in the midst of reprocessing all (!!) of our image assets from .NEF (a RAW format) and I'm wondering if I should take another look at JPEG2000 now. When I first started imaging the collection, JPEG2000 was in its infancy and not widely adopted. As a result, I have my master files in NEF and TIF, my high-quality derivatives in TIF, and my accessible and web-ready images in JPG. Part of this reprocessing will including making new copies of the high-quality derivatives as well as the accessible JPGs. So I'm wondering if I should replace the HQ derivative TIFs with JPEG2000 at this time. Anyone have any opinions, experiences or suggestions before I commit to this? ~Perian Perian Sully Collections Information Manager Web Programs Strategist The Magnes 2911 Russell St. Berkeley, CA 94705 Work: 510-549-6950 x 357 Fax: 510-849-3673 http://www.magnes.org http://www.musematic.org http://www.mediaandtechnology.org _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
