Please forward to the appropriate lists.
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Digital Images Archiving Study - final draft available for public
consultation
A growth in digital imaging technologies has meant that a vast number of
digital images are produced every year. The scholarly community has made
particular use of this new media, and is now strongly reliant on access to
digital image resources. While many images are "born-digital", a vast
majority of digital images have been digitised. Digitisation of collections
has allowed a radical shift in the manner in which libraries and cultural
organisations can deliver their collections, enabling them to provide round
the clock online access to multiple users from anywhere in the world.
To secure the long-term future of these born-digital and digitised assets,
significant effort must be put into ensuring that they are preserved and
continue to be accessible in the future. Over the past few years, the JISC
has funded a series of feasibility studies which aim to assess the
preservation risk and retention criteria for digital content, and to help
inform and prioritise the development of future services and calls in
digital preservation. The Digital Images Archiving study forms part of the
feasibility study programme and has been funded to scope the preservation
requirements of digital image files and to determine archiving methodologies
and future research directions.
The study has been carried out by the Arts and Humanities Data Service
(AHDS). The study is now complete and a copy of the draft final report is
available for public consultation at
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=imagesarchiving. Comments and feedback
are invited till 31 May 2006, which will be considered and incorporated into
the final report.
Please send your comments to Sheila Anderson at the AHDS
([log in to unmask]) or Helen Hockx-Yu at JISC
([log in to unmask]).
Helen Hockx-Yu
Programme Manager
JISC Office, Kings College London
Strand Bridge House (3rd Floor)
138-142 Strand
London WC2R 1HH
Tel: 020 7848 1803
Mobile: 07813 024633
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