25th Anniversary of JPEG 2000

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To mark the 25th anniversary of JPEG 2000, the DPC is hosting a free and open event to recognize the role that this significant standard has played in many digitization and digital preservation projects over the past quarter century.

On 19th November 2025, 14:00-16:00 UTC, we are inviting members of the digital preservation community to come along and hear about the development of JPEG 2000, learn from organizations that have implemented it in their work and the challenges they faced, and to discuss what might come next.

Our keynote speaker will be Dr Robert Buckley, a member of the JPEG committee that developed JPEG 2000 who subsequently worked with several institutions that have adopted it. Robert spent 29 years at Xerox, starting with Xerox PARC before transferring to the Xerox Webster Research Center in NY. He most recently served as a Technical Adviser at the National Library and Archives of the UAE.

Programme

• 1400-14:10 Welcome and introduction

• 14:10-14:35 JPEG 2000 after 25 years: Looking Back, where we are now and the road ahead - Dr Robert Buckley 

• 14:35-15:10 Case studies: 

  • Going Lossy: 16 Years of JP2 at Wellcome Collection - Christy Henshaw (Wellcome Collection)

  • JP2 and Imaging Strategy at Harvard - Stephen Abrams (Harvard Library)

  • Twenty-five Years of JPEG2000: Sustaining Access and Scale in the Digital Preservation Era - Elizabeth MacLeod (Internet Archive)

• 15:10-15:25 An introduction to HTJ2K (High-throughput JPEG 2000) - Pierre-Anthony Lemieux

• 15:25-15:45 Panel discussion and Q&A

NB. The above programme is subject to change but the event will definitely end by 16:00.

Recordings

All presentations will be recorded and made available to DPC Members and Supporters via this web page after the event (login to DPC website required).

Please note – DPC Members do not need to register in order to access the recordings after the event.

DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy

The DPC Community is guided by the values set out in our Strategic Plan and aims to be respectful, welcoming, inclusive and transparent. We encourage diversity in all its forms and are committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation, whilst remaining technology and vendor neutral. We ask all those who are part of this community to be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy.