Trina,
Kim Scott is right...this is a "fun" one.
My question to you would be, "How do you plan to use the scans of your newspaper clippings?" If you are doing an OCR on them and presenting the "content," on the web (in effect, a transcription of the text), then your "master" file would be a small (relative to the size of the original TIFF file) text file. If you are combining some "image" aspect of the clipping, then you will need to retain some kind of "master" image file format (i.e., TIFF). The same would hold true if you are simply displaying "page" images...you'll need that master TIFF somewhere.
Of course, one of the other questions would be "Can you afford to re-scan the documents?" If yes, then don't worry about saving a master TIFF.
Dennis Moser, MILS
Project Director, IMLS National Leadership Grant
Digital Imaging Faculty
Lee College
P.O. Box 818, Baytown, TX 77522-0818
(281)425-6819/(281)425-6557 (fax)
dmoser@lee.edu
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From: Trina Purcell
Reply To: Trina Purcell
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 08:49
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Digital Images
Hello,
I've been doing some research prior to digitizing our collections, and I've
know that images are typically created in TIFF format and then derivative
images are created for web database. I know that there are very good
reasons for using the TIFF format (longevity, flexibility, easy migration
etc).
My question is, are there exceptions to the rule? Have people found any
situations in which high quality master files aren't needed? Perhaps for
cost-related reasons, speed, temporary web-exhibits etc? Or perhaps just
due to the nature of the collections. As an example, do I really need TIFF
images of every newspaper clipping in every collection?
Appreciate your thoughts on this.
Trina