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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