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Future Perfect 2012

By ecochrane on 9 November 2011 - 8:32pm
Link: 
Future Perfect 2012 Conference

The draft programme for Future Perfect 2012 is now available online!

http://bit.ly/uVsvDl

The theme of Future Perfect 2012 - Digital Preservation by Design - seeks to stimulate discussion about how, when and why influencing the design of systems can support digital preservation and ultimately ensure that today’s information is available tomorrow.  Future Perfect 2012 will be a two day conference featuring many exciting international speakers.

Our audience will hear presentations from:

Date: 
26 March 2012 to 27 March 2012
Location: 
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Wellington
New Zealand
Preservation Topics: 
Format Registry
Preservation Actions
Identification
Bit rot
Preservation Strategies
Normalisation
Characterisation
Representation Information
Corpora
Emulation
Migration
Tools
Preservation Risks
Event Types: 
Conference

Paper on JPEG 2000 for preservation

By johan on 6 June 2011 - 10:11am

The JPEG 2000 compression standard is steadily becoming more and more popular in the archival community. Several large (national) libraries are now using the JP2 format (which corresponds to Part 1 of the standard) as the master format in mass digitisation projects. However, some aspects of the JP2 file format are defined in ways that are open to multiple interpretations.