Description
Institutional policies or digitisation guidelines may impose various constraints on the technical characteristics of preservation and access images. These constraints can be defined in a technical profile. If images don't conform to this profile, this may lead to a variety of problems.
Risks
- Images may not meet quality requirements (e.g. lossy compression where lossless is required)
- Performance problems in access environment (e.g. progression order that is not optimised for typical viewing use cases)
- Interoperability problems (e.g. resolution that is not in expected header fields may lead to loss of this information after migration and failure of OCR software)
Assessment
Using a combination of Jpylyzer and [Schematron], it is possible to automatically assess a JP2 against a technical profile. The procedure is described in this blog
. Test data are provided there as well.
Recommendations
- Carefully consider the technical requirements that your JP2s should meet, and define a profile
- Translate this profile to a set of Schematron rules
- Use Jpylyzer and [Schematron] to determine if each JP2 meets the requirements
Example files
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References
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