[AT] Digital Archiving

[Paul Waugh]

Whip the horse, again and again

Paul - IN
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Goss" <rlgoss at insightbb.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Digital Archiving



Ah, that's very true if you are modifying the image database, renaming the 
file, and saving it in order to maintain a paper-trail, but when you work 
with the header file instead, there is none of that -- NONE of that. I don't 
bother with filenames on digital images. I let the operating system and the 
digital camera assign filenames to images as it sees fit. I have no need for 
any names more specific than folder or collection names. Individual images 
are kept track of visually within a collection, and the operating system 
will keep from duplicating existing filenames.

Larry

----- Original Message -----
From: Bob W <rgw13 at bellsouth.net>
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 16:35
Subject: Re: [AT] Digital Archiving
To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group' <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> I was under the impression that with JPEG there would be a
> certain amount of
> loss with repeated saves, and this did not happen with tiff. I
> do realize
> the size of the file is considerably bigger with tiff.
>
> Bob W
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Larry Goss
> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 4:49 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Digital Archiving
>
>
> Define "best."
>
> For those who want no compression, true fidelity to the original
> image, and
> some other features, there is no substitute for TIFF. But I'm more
> concerned about a virtual paper-trail. As such, I can work in
> the header of
> JPEG (rather than the actual image database) and be perfectly
> content even
> though I know there are compromises being made behind the scenes.
>
> Larry
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bob W <rgw13 at bellsouth.net>
> Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 13:45
> Subject: Re: [AT] Digital Archiving
> To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>
> > Larry,
> >
> > Just a simple question. Is tiff the best format for
> "archiving"
> > digitalpictures? This may have been already discussed but
> > I missed it if it has
> > been.
> >
> > Bob W
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> > [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of
> Larry Goss
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 1:35 PM
> > To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> > Subject: Re: [AT] Digital Archiving
> >
> > The maxim is: If it has been stored digitally, it hasn't been
> > archived.
> > That used to be true, and if you consider standard archiving
> > techniques, it
> > still is. But when you consider the possibility of
> distributed
> > storage of
> > multiple copies with purposeful media migration as a method of
> > archiving,then other techniques become possible and the
> > "dangers" of electronic
> > storage are minimized.
> >
> > This is not an easy paradigm shift for people to accept, and
> it
> > opens up all
> > sorts of other questions that we don't want to have to deal
> > with. For
> > instance, the original document is going to eventually turn to dust
> > regardless of how you protect it and preserve it. When that
> > inevitabledeterioration happens, does that mean that you have
> to
> > destroy all the
> > digital copies as though the original had never existed? Archive
> > organizations and libraries are having a difficult time
> > answering that
> > question. All you have to do is look at the expense and
> efforts
> > that are
> > being expended by Trinity College in Dublin to preserve and
> > protect The Book
> > of Kells or by the various libraries that have original copies
> > of Gutenberg
> > Bibles to see the extent organizations will go to. But for 20
> > bucks I
> > purchased a CD that contains the whole Book of Kells plus
> videos
> > showing its
> > history and the technology of illuminated manuscripts. Would
> > that digital
> > copy be subject to recall if the original Book of Kells became
> > non-existent
> > for whatever reason?
> >
> > To bring this discussion back to tractors, is it acceptable to
> > generate a
> > restored tractor? What percentage of original parts do you
> have
> > to have
> > before you have to agree that is no longer the same tractor?
> >
> > Larry
> >
> >
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