I am currently attending a workshop on digital images at the JISC Digitisation Conference.
It is a technical briefing on capture, conversion and workflow.
Nigel Goldsmith, the TASI Technical Research Officer is talking about images, RAW format, Adobe’s Digital Negative format and JPEG2000.
Outlining many of the problems with JPEG2000 and why it isn’t widely used or supported.
It’s quite interesting.
Having attended a really interesting session on Shibboleth and Federated Access, I am currently listening to the plenary about the other parallel sessions.
It is proving to be a useful and interesting conference. What is nice is that the presentations and other reports will be available on the conference blog.
Though the content of the conference is on digitisation and e-content, it is interesting how the focus of much of the conference is on web 2.0 and (unsurprisingly) Google. I suspect that this is down to the focus on end users’ needs rather than coming from an institutional approach.
A lot of talk about elephants as well, of which I seemed to have missed somehow the connection.
The plenary has finished and we are now looking at tomorrow.
Today I am in Cardiff for the JISC Digitisation Conference. There is a live blog of the event which is going to cover the conference so much better than I ever could!
I am currently listening to Malcolm Read from JISC talking about the background to the programme. He is showing the “infamous” JISC content triangle.
Tomorrow (Thursday) I am off to Cardiff to attend the JISC Digitisation Conference on e-Content.
Today saw a major international symposium organised and hosted by JISC to explore national and international policies and strategies around e-content.
I am attending the next two days.
Delegates will be joined on Thursday by around 130 leading figures from education, research, cultural heritage, public broadcasting and industry in the UK and beyond for a further two days for a conference on digitisation which will showcase national and international digitisation initiatives – including JISC’s £22m digitisation programme – and explore the potential for cross-sectoral cooperation in this area.
Should be an interesting conference. I am hoping to blog a few entries over the conference (there is wireless access), however there is also the official blog: JISC Digitisation Blog.