The Wellcome Library also have a JP2K Implementation Group which I am part of. I'll alert the facilitator of that group to this thread as see if she wants to contribute where the Wellcome are up to.
Michael ========================= Michael Stocking Managing Director Armadillo Systems 300 Kensal Road London W10 5BE +44 (0)20 8960 8600 michael at armadillosystems.com www.armadillosystems.com www.turningthepages.com http://digitalcultureonline.blogspot.com/ On 11 Mar 2010, at 19:14, Buckley, Robert R wrote: > 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-bounces at 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/ > _______________________________________________ > 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/
