Dear all, 

members of the list who work with images may be interested in the Workshop details 
below.

Regards,
Julianne          

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DPC/BL Joint JPEG 2000 Workshop
25th June 2007
British Library Conference Centre, St Pancras, London
10.00 ­ 16.30

9:30-10:00
Arrival, registration and coffee
Morning Session ­ "JPEG2000 in practise" chaired
by Roger James, Head of Digital Library, BL

10:00-10:10
Welcome and introduction - Rory McLeod, Digital Preservation Manager BL

10:10-10:40
"THE AHDS EXPERIENCE" Mike Pringle, Visual Arts Manager, AHDS

10:40-11:10
"Preservation Planning"  ­ Christoph Becker, Vienna University of Technology.

11:10-11:40
"JP2's preservation capabilities within PLANETS"
Manfred Thaller, Cologne University

11:40-12:10
"Encoding lossy compressed JP2 files: using
signal peak signal to noise ratio to dynamically
modulate compression". Bill Comstock, Harvard

12:10-12:30
Q & A

12:30-13:30
Lunch

Afternoon Session - "Can JP2 be considered as a preservation format?"

13:30-14:00
"How do I decide if JPEG2000 is for me? Choosing
standards when there are so many". Simon Tanner, Kings College London.

14:00-14:30
"JPEG2000 in Practise" - Aly Conteh, Digitisation Programme Manager, BL

14:30-15:00
"Adobe" - Jim King,  Adobe

15:00-15:30
Q & A followed by coffee

15:30-16:30
Panel Session chaired by Roger James.