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KB Report on Alternative File Formats for Storing Master Images of Digitisation Projects

Joy Davidson | 19 March 2008

The Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands, has published a report on possible alternative file formats for storing master images from mass digitisation projects. Uncompressed TIFFs, the KB's preferred format so far, take up far too much storage capacity to be a viable storage strategy for the long term.