These days, storage is cheap and getting cheaper, so cost of storage should
not be a consideration. Especially with the relatively small sizes of image
files. EG a 1TB external HDD can be bought for less than £50. 3TB for less
than £150.
If you run out of storage, buy some more. Obviously, backing up everything
(not just to cloud storage) is essential.
A TIFF will actually be a larger file size than the corresponding RAW file.
As TIFF is uncompressed, there will be no loss of quality. TIFFs can be
viewed on any computer without extra software unlike RAW files, so I would
go with TIFF. Start with RAW and convert to TIFF if you need to do any
adjustments to the images.
You would get far better results using a good flatbed scanner for slides and
glass plates.
Images for the web site should be converted to JPEG or PNG. There will be
some loss of quality, but web browsers cannot display TIFF or RAW images as
standard and file sizes/download overhead will be far smaller.
Thank You
Jason Hurley
Crumplezone Multimedia
01257 416596
http://www.crumplezone.co.uk
on 30/03/2016 14:04, Katherine West at [log in to unmask]
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was hoping some of you might be able to give me some advice.
>
> I am working on a HLF project in the New Forest aiming to create a website
> which will be a portal to information on the New Forest. This includes
> digitising a large part of the New Forest Centre's museum and library
> collection to be uploaded to the website as well as forming a high quality
> digital archive.
>
> We have purchased a digital SLR camera and will be using it to digitise a
> range of objects, from maps to glass plate negatives and 35mm slides. We have
> a limited budget and will be storing digitised copies on the cloud and an
> external hard drive.
>
> We are currently discussing whether we should be saving the RAW files or
> whether TIFF files will be sufficient for a master digital archive. Our
> concern is that RAW files might take up too much space on our storage system,
> but also that we should be capturing the digital copies with as much detail
> and information as possible for the future.
>
> Has anyone else had any experience of this? Do other organisations often use
> RAW files instead of TIFF? What are the advantages either way? Any advice
> would be a huge help! Thank you.
>
> Katherine.
>
>
> Katherine West
> Digitisation Officer
> New Forest Knowledge Project
> Please note: My working days are Wednesday - Friday. I may not be able to
> respond to emails immediately outside of these days. Thank you for your
> understanding.
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