Added on 25 September 2014


Registration for the Wellcome Trust and Digital Preservation Coalition's (DPC) ‘Current Trends and Future Directions for Digital Imaging in Libraries and Archives’ event is now open. The conference will take place in the Wellcome Trust’s Gibb Building in London on 10th November, and is a free event.

The day-long event will address issues of validation, compression and preservation which have each become more important in image management as collections grow in size and complexity. 

“On one hand compression is seen as a necessary requirement to deal with the scale of the collection, but preservation advice generally discourages compression which is seen as a preservation risk,” explains Christy Henshaw of the Wellcome Trust. “Validation is essential for quality assurance in the development of large collections and is a necessary component in the development of a preservation plan: but adds another process in our workflows thus adding complexity and expense.”

So how to compress without risking loss? How to validate without adding complexity and expense? How to preserve with limited storage capacities?

Underlying these issues are developments related to JPEG2000 (JP2K), an open standard for the compression of images.  Because it can offer visually lossless compression JP2k can have a dramatic impact on access and distribution of images.

“This one-day workshop will bring together a range of specialist practitioners with experience of JP2K for digital libraries and digital archives, and will shed light on current and emerging practice and will enable a debate about future directions” says William Kilbride of the DPC.

Register for the 'Current Trends and Future Directions for Digital Imaging in Libraries and Archives' conference.

Places are strictly limited and should be booked in advance. If you book a place and can't attend, please let us know no later than 14 days before the event, otherwise we will charge you a non-attendance fee of £30.00, to cover the cost of your place.