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Archiving Digital Images



Hi -- When we discuss the archiving digital images it is typically in
regards to images created through a digitization project.  In this
respect TIFF is the only acceptable archival format.  But what about
images that are born digitally?  I take a picture with a digital camera;
I download and a save it as a JPG; I become famous and donate my papers
to an archive including all my JPG images.  Are these worthy of
archiving even though they are an "inferior" format?  What if they were
not JPG but in some proprietary format  - do we try to convert them to
an open format?  I'm interested in what people may actually being doing,
what standards or procedures they may have developed for their archives,
and/or what your take on this issue is.

Thank you -- Dan Noonan

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"The librarian will have to be a more active participant in staving off
"infochaos." If the traditional  librarian has been conceived as a
figure at home in the discreet silences and cautious dealings of a Henry
James novel, now perhaps the right model will be found in James Fenimore
Cooper or the Star  Wars films: something between the pathfinder Natty
Bumppo and the Jedi knight."

"Avatars of the Word" James J. O'Donnell, Ph.D., 1998
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