Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 09:18:17 -0700 To: mc...@world.std.com From: Leslie Johnston <lesl...@leland.stanford.edu> Subject: Image storage question
We have begun a restrospective visual documentation of our collections that includes digitizing all existing and new images of the collections to in part plan for the re-installation of our museum next year. We are digitizing at a rate of 1 GB per month, which way outstrips our current and planed storage capacity. One possible plan is to store all of our large archival image files on CD, using either a CD writer that is available through another department or to purchase our own. What are other institutions doing about storing their large, not to be accessed on a daily basis images? Do you think that it is better to invest in high capacity hard drives or magneto-optical drives instead of writing off to CD-ROM? One of our staff members suggested Jaz drives, but I am wary of that. We will need to make some adjustments to the scanning workstation (i.e. swap out its hard drive for one that's compatible with data transfer to CD) in addition to purchasing the writer and CD media. Thanks in advance, Leslie ------------ Leslie Johnston Academic Technology Specialist Stanford University Museum of Art / Art Department lesl...@leland.stanford.edu
