LITA JPEG2000 Interest Group Meeting at ALA Annual

REGISTRATION INFO: JPEG 2000 Summit

LITA JPEG2000 interest group needs a new chair

Greetings fellow JPEG2000 enthusiasts --

The JPEG2000 interest group has been a part of LITA (Library and Information Technology Association)
division of ALA for most of a decade, and in that time it has been my pleasure to serve as chair of the group. 
The LITA bylaws, however, state that the chair of an interest group can only serve a maximum of four years,
so the IG needs a new chair.  Think of this as a great opportunity to volunteer a little bit of time towards a
great goal.

The management overhead of an interest group is pretty low.  There is a LITA chairperson's meeting on
Saturday morning of both the midwinter and annual conference.  You'll need to respond to occasional
e-mails from the LITA office about scheduling interest group meetings for midwinter and annual
conferences.  And you'll need to report on the interest group discussions after each conference.  If you
want to put on a program or produce a publication, there are liaisons to LITA committees to help you out in
addition to the great support from the LITA staff.

If you are interested in the position, let me know.  If there is enough interest, we'll do an e-mail ballot of
LITA members on this list.

On a related note, I will not be able to chair the meeting at the upcoming annual convention on June 26th.  I've
been ask to participate on a panel that runs at the same time as the interest group meeting.  But I will
certainly help the incoming chair prepare for the meeting.

Peter
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Welcome to new list participants and Minutes from the ALA Meeting

Welcome to the new participants of the J2KARCLIB-L mailing list.  This is a very low volume list that
discusses the adoption of JPEG2000 in archives and libraries as well as the business of the American
Library Association (ALA) Interest Group (IG).  I added the e-mail addresses of attendees to the IG; if you
want your name removed at any point, please let me know.

Also, the minutes for the IG meeting in Boston this past weekend are now up in ALA Connect
(http://connect.ala.org/node/92699).  The minutes are publicly available, but I believe you need an
ALA Connect account in order to comment.  All ALA members have one (sign in at
http://connect.ala.org/user and/or see
http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=Login&template=/security/nopassword.cfm to recover
your password), and you can sign up for one even if you are not a member of ALA (http://connect.ala.org/node/75319).

Please note that the interest group needs a new chair starting at the June meeting of ALA.  All LITA members
are eligible to be chair, and it is a pretty light-weight job.  If interested, please get in contact with me.

Peter
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JPEG2000 interest group meeting canceled at American Library Association meeting on Saturday

Due to unforeseen personal and professional circumstances, both the  
chair and the vice chair of the LITA JPEG2000 in Archives and  
Libraries Interest Group will not be attending the American Library  
Association conference in Chicago this weekend, and as a consequence  
the IG meeting scheduled for Saturday from 1:30pm to 3:00pm has been  
canceled.  My apologies for the short notice.

Peter
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Assistant Director, New Service Development  tel:+1-614-728-3600;ext=338
OhioLINK: the Ohio Library and Information Network        Columbus, Ohio
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Fwd: JPEG 2000 Survey Final Report from UConn

Request for info on JPEG2000

Fwd: djatoka now in production at Biodiversity Heritage Library

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Chris Freeland <Chris.Freeland@...>
> Date: January 27, 2009 12:56:10 PM EST
> To: CODE4LIB@...
> Subject: djatoka now in production at Biodiversity Heritage Library
> Reply-To: Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB@...>
>
> [Apologies in advance for crossposting]
>
> The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) has integrated djatoka, the  
> new
> open source JPEG 2000 image server developed by Ryan Chute and Herbert
> Van de Sompel at Los Alamos National Laboratory, into its production
> portal at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org.  BHL is a consortium of
> natural history libraries who are partnering with Internet Archive to
> digitize public domain scientific literature of use to individual
> scholars and large bioinformatics projects like the Encyclopedia of
> Life.  To date more than 27,000 volumes have been made available in  
> open
> access through Internet Archive and the BHL Portal.
>
> Here's a representative page image delivered via djatoka, chosen in
> honor of yesterday's celebration of the Year of the Ox:
> http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9370105
>
> Since last Thursday (Jan 22), djatoka has been serving the images for
> the (nearly) 11 million pages available through BHL.  It's scaling &
> performing well under our normal load of 1,500 users per day, but we
> wanted to give it a more robust test...which we're hoping to see with
> this e-mail post to various listservs. We've written a blog post with
> more details about our implementation & infrastructure, available  
> here:
> http://biodiversitylibrary.blogspot.com/2009/01/now-serving-all-page-ima
> ges-via-djatoka.html
> or here:
> http://tinyurl.com/bjh72x
>
> We also wanted to make this announcement in support of djatoka and  
> JPEG
> 2000, given the recent survey of JPEG 2000 implementation in  
> libraries,
> available at http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/libr_pubs/16/.  In short,
> our experience evaluating and implementing djatoka has been extremely
> smooth and we were able to drop it into our existing infrastructure  
> and
> UI with a minimum of customization (as described in the post).  It
> replaces a non-scalable, proprietary JPEG 2000 image server that until
> now has been the biggest bottleneck in delivering our content to  
> users.
> The lack of open source options for JPEG 2000 delivery is often among
> the most frequently cited reasons why cultural heritage organizations
> have not embraced the JPEG 2000 format. Hopefully our positive
> experience implementing djatoka and its demonstrated use within BHL  
> can
> be a stimulus for other projects to evaluate the software and/or put
> JPEG 2000 back in consideration as a delivery format.
>
> [And of course this message is sent out with the caveat, stated above,
> that we have yet to test djatoka in production under the peak load  
> that
> will (hopefully) occur as this message makes its way through Inboxes
> around the world.  It's working beautifully under normal production  
> load
> and our internal testing suggests that it will perform without  
> incident,
> but the only true test is a live one...]
>
> Looking forward to feedback,
>
> **************
> Chris Freeland
> Technical Director, Biodiversity Heritage Library
> Director, Bioinformatics, Missouri Botanical Garden

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Assistant Director, New Service Development  tel:+1-614-728-3600;ext=338
OhioLINK: the Ohio Library and Information Network        Columbus, Ohio
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Notes from the JPEG2000 Interest Group meeting, January 2009, Denver

Greetings to those that attended the JPEG2000 interest group meeting  
in Denver this past weekend; if you are seeing this message it means  
you were successfully added to the mailing list.  As I mentioned in  
the meeting, this is a very low volume and typically on-topic mailing  
list.  If you would like to have your name removed, please let me  
know.  What follows is the notes from the meeting.

The JPEG2000 in Archives and Libraries interest group of the LITA  
division of the American Library Assocation held an informal meeting  
at the recent Midwinter Conference in Denver. 15 people were in  
attendance -- including 8 LITA members and 2 students. Of those  
attending, 3 were familiar with the standard while the rest were  
seeking information about JPEG2000. Of those seeking information, it  
tended to be the kinds of data needed to support a decision for the  
use of JPEG2000 in a still image archiving practice. We agreed that at  
the very least this suggests a need to organize an introduction-to- 
JPEG2000 program. We also talked about the more general need for  
programming that raises the understanding of digital imaging practices  
in general. No formal plans were made to work on this, although there  
were expressions of interest.

Download iCal file
The next meeting of the JPEG2000 in Archives and Libraries interest  
group, assuming the conference organizers allow us to keep our typical  
time, will be on Saturday, July 11th from 1:30pm to 3:00pm in Chicago.

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Peter Murray                            http://www.pandc.org/peter/work/
Assistant Director, New Service Development  tel:+1-614-728-3600;ext=338
OhioLINK: the Ohio Library and Information Network        Columbus, Ohio
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Fwd: Results Up: Digital Project Staff Survey of JPEG 2000 Implementation in Libraries