Dear Katherine,
You might wish to post this on the museum photography JISCMail list which
can be found here:
http://www.ahfap.org.uk/jiscmail/
But in the meantime as a museum object photographer I'd offer some advice
which in my opinion would be keep the RAW files and the TIFFs. I've kept
the last ten years of PhaseOne/Hasselblad RAW files shot here at the
Government Art Collection and would never throw them away because I see
them as the digital equivalent of the negative. I have sometimes gone back
to them where the TIFF has somehow got lost in other parts of our system. I
also think that technology always improves and who knows what tech is round
the corner that might well improve the output. TIFFs are fine as an
archival format, that's what I save out to, but I'm not getting rid of the
RAWs ever!
I do not subscribe to the view that RAW files are proprietary and so will
eventually be unreadable. I believe it is my job to make sure we always
have the software and hardware around that can read them. I have all the
old versions of the RAW software and a nice G4 mac mini to run them on if
needs be, if I upgrade my Mac Pro, I'll archive the old Mac Pro I currently
use. eBay will always be a source of spare for older machines. If Phase One
goes bust then I might consider moving them to .dng, but there will always
be a solution so I am not worried.
As for disk space, well it's not exactly expensive anymore despite what you
IT dept might say, IT should serve you not the other way round. We have a
total team of 14 here of which I am the sole photographer so am not coming
at this from a large museum environment.
Hope this helps, but do check out the museum photography group's JISCmail
if you want further help, there's 270 photographers on that list now, of
which many will be glad to give you further views and help.
Best regards
Tony
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On 30 March 2016 at 14:04, Katherine West <
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> 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
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> understanding.
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