Message-Id: <199710070645.XAA59338@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 08:44:54 +0200 From: Emil Levine <mailto:E.Levine@IAEA.ORG> Subject: . Digitization standards To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
>Suggest you get copy of DIGITAL IMAGING FOR LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES by Anne
>Kenney.
Emil Levine Head, INIS Clearinghouse UN/IAEA/INIS PO Box 100 Vienna Austria 43-1-2060-22880/29882 fax mailto:e.levine@iaea.org
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>From: Mike Levy[SMTP:mailto:MLEVY@SFPL.LIB.CA.US]
>Sent: Tuesday, 07 October 1997 01:47
>To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
>Subject: Digitization standards
>
>Dear Image Libs,
>
>Has there been a standard established to define what the d.p.i.
>for a "preservation quality" b&w photographic image should be if
>digitized in 256 grays? I'm specifically asking about an uncompressed
>archival version of the scanned file. I've read suggestions which
>range from 300 to 600 d.p.i. and I'm interested in what others
>are doing, specifically, those that do their scanning in-house.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>
>
>Mike Levy
>Multimedia Department
>San Francisco Public Library
>(415)557-4416
>
>