ALA Annual Conference 2008: Archiving in Practice with JPEG2000 (Sunday, 8am to 10am)
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The JPEG2000 in Archives and Libraries Interest Group of the LITA
division of ALA is pleased to present a program on Archiving in
Practice with JPEG2000 on Sunday, June 29th from 8am to 10am in
Ballroom E, Anaheim Convention Center.
Lead Presentation
Mr. Justin Dávila, Digital Media Workflow, Business and Technology
Consultant, will start the program with an overview of the JPEG2000
technology followed by a review of projects that use JPEG2000 for
still and moving images. Special emphasis will be placed on the
concept of "visually lossless" compression -- a middle-ground between
mathematically lossless compression and lossy compression. Projects
and technologies to be reviewed include the Dance Heritage Coalition,
Library of Congress, National Institute of Health/National Library of
Medicine, and the Sony 4k Digital Cinema Projectors.
JPEG2000 Lightning Talks
Following Mr. Dávila's presentation, members of the audience are
invited to contribute to the discussion by presenting 5-minute
"lightning talks" on a project or technology in the cultural heritage
arena. The "lightning talk" format is an adaptation of the
"unconference" meeting style. The concept is to have self-selected
presenters talk on a topic of interest to the audience for no more
than five minutes at a time. The goal is to give an inch deep and mile
wide perspective on topics that can be the start of follow-up
conversations among the presenters and members of the audience.
Due to the quick nature of the lightning talk format, presenters are
strongly encouraged to bring presentation materials on a USB flash
drive or download them from the web to avoid the complications of
laptop switching. It is anticipated that wireless access will be
available in the meeting room.
Suggested topics include:
Descriptions of other visually lossless experiments or extended
comments on the topic
Overview of a project using JPEG2000 as an archival master format
Overview of a project using JPEG2000 as an access master format (using
some other format as an archive master)
Advantages and Disadvantages of embedding metadata into the JPEG2000
file
Tests of quantitative measurements of JPEG2000 quality
Use of Motion JPEG2000 in the cultural heritage arena
Differences between JPEG2000 Part 1 (JP2) and Part 2 (JPX), and the
complications of proprietary color profiles
About the primary speaker
Justin Dávila is an independent, respected consulting authority in the
areas of large-scale audiovisual digitization techniques and digital
media technologies. He is a strategic technology and business
consulting professional with expertise in P&L, operations, product
development, marketing, which can be applied to archives. He has a
unique technical specialization in digital media and distribution
technologies. He has performed application development and database
design for large, medium, and small collections.
Recently, Mr. Dávila helped propel a small company from start-up, as
the first hire, to a leading automated videotape digitization system,
by co-inventing and developing SAMMA™, the System for the Automated
Migration of Media Assets. It is an industrial robotic system for
digitizing large tape collections, prototyped at Yale University's
Fortunoff Collection for Holocaust Testimonials, and used by the
Library of Congress in it’s new National Audiovisual Conservation
Center (NAVCC) in Culpeper, VA, using JPEG2000 technologies.
Mr. Dávila's undergraduate degree was in philosophy with a focus on
philosophy of science and computer science at Florida Atlantic
University, and his master's studies were in cognitive science and
artificial intelligence through the Gallatin Graduate School of
Individualized Studies at New York University.
About the JPEG2000 in Archives and Libraries Interest Group
Established in 2005, the j2kIG supports education, development, and
advocacy activities for the adoption of the JPEG 2000 image standard
in archives and libraries. Activities of the interest group can be
tracked on the IG section of the JPEG2000 in Archives and Libraries
website and on the j2kArcLib-L mailing list.
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