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new JPEG 2000 open source server


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By info @ archimuse - Posted on 18 September 2008

Those involved with serving high resolution images may be interested in the following announcement, of a new, high-performance, standards-compliant open source JPEG 2000 image server targeted at museum and library collections.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/september2008-chute

It's produced by a group at Los Alamos National Labs that is deeply involved with library and scholarly communications standards work; they're also leaders in OAI/ORE, among other projects.

Via Chris Mackie on MCN-L