Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 07:31:15 -0700 From: Christine Bostick <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Re; image storage Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline
At OHS we are going to use a CD writer for storing our images on a more permanent basis. ********************************************************************** Christine Bostick MIS Director www.ohs.org Oregon Historical Society Email: [email protected] 1200 SW Park Avenue Phone: 503-306-5217 Portland, OR 97205 Fax: 503-221-2035 *********************************************************************** >>> Museum Computer Network <[email protected]> 09/11/97 06:45AM >>> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 12:05:33 -0400 (EDT) X-Sender: [email protected] (Unverified) Message-Id: <v01510101b03c1f3ff88e@[204.191.151.57]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: [email protected] From: [email protected] (Sasha Korper) Subject: Re: Image storage question CD ROM is an inexpensive, relatively practical solution; you have access to a writer, the media are cheap to buy in bulk and the industry standard does currently widely support CD drives which would suggest a bit more longevity in terms of information access (eventually we will all be transfering our image files to other formats, but that is not of great concern at the moment). For security, I would favour CD over JAZ - read only memory does make it that much more difficult to alter the stored files. Sasha >Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 09:18:17 -0700 >To: [email protected] >From: Leslie Johnston <[email protected]> >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 >[email protected] Sasha Korper Encompass Information Technology 17 Morrow Avenue * Toronto M6R 2H9 tel 416*538*8220 fax 416*538*8772 New Media Consulting for the Cultural Sector
