Evaluating HTJ2K as a Drop-In Replacement for JPEG2000 with IIIF

JPEG2000 is a widely adopted open standard for images in cultural heritage, both for delivering access and for creating preservation files that are losslessly compressed. Recently, a new extension to JPEG2000 has been developed by the JPEG Committee: “High Throughput JPEG2000,” better known as HTJ2K. HTJ2K promises faster encoding and decoding speeds compared to traditional [...]