Thanks so much for bringing to my attention the Shifting Gears essay. It was
indeed provocative--it opened my mind to new ways of thinking. I'm listening to
Sam Quigley's presentation as I write and I look forward to hearing the other
presentations from the Digitization Matters conference. I
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Bravo to Sam (the man with the longest title in Museum
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Bravo to Sam (the man with the longest title in Museum Technology) for
questioning time honored advice
Sully
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Hi all:
We're currently having a debate about the appropriate scanned image
sizes for archival documents. Our scanner doesn't scan into RAW, so
we're batting back
Potts
Digital Asset Specialist
Corning Museum of Glass
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Hi all:
We're
: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 9:34 AM
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Hi Perian,
I would recommend scanning at 600 dpi if you can afford it. It's best
to scan only once, and at the highest quality you can. That way, your
images are 'use neutral
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Ahh yes the magic number of DPI
Here's a few other considerations to add to the mix.
Resolution should also be tied to the details in the thing being
scanned. For Microfilming documents, a quality scale was developed
to ensure that items were captured at the proper level. The UIUC
I would definitely scan at a minimum of 600 dpi for printed matter. That's
what the National Yiddish Book Center uses for the Yiddish books they scan.
It is slightly coarse, but works well for the technology (and storage space)
that were available at the time. Today, I would look at 1200 or 2400
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Bravo to Sam (the man with the longest title in Museum Technology) for
questioning time honored advice. (Hmm... Time honored?). There are other areas
where this thinking is being applied very productively, for example in software
and website
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