Good Morning,
My query revolves around the quantity/quality issue, and concerns the
delivered file size of scanned images made available through archival
institutions across the web.
Does anyone have statistics or references to information about the maximum
file size the archival audience will patiently download.
Conversely, I also need information of the minimun file size that can be
delivered, and still retain a reputation for quality of presentation.
We are producing bitonal images of 17th and
18th century microfilmed original documents where heavy foxing and bleed
through are major issues. If a grayscale appearance can be achieved with
dithering, a good quality of images can be produced while in a batch
scan mode. However, the resulting file sizes fall (generally) between .5 MB
and 4 MB.
Our master copies will be the higher quality
images, it is the presentation image that I need to justify.
Thanks in advance for the help,
Cathy Brown, CA
North Carolina State Archives
Raleigh, NC 27601
919-733-3952
My opinions... .
ESSE QUAM VIDERI --
To be rather than to
seem
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