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DML : Digital Mathematics Library -- Technical Standards Committee:-- -- Intermediate Report
Talk given on the EMS DML Brainstorming Meeting at Berlingen, Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2003

Technical Standards Committee: Intermediate Report
(as of Nov. 5, 2002)


2. Archiving Formats:

Scanned raw data (pnm, tiff)
(CCIT G4 for bitonal,
lossless compressed, LZW, ZIP for gray, color)

Suggestion: the raw data should be accessible to the public as well.

Reasons:

  1. Somebody may come up with a better delivery format later.

  2. If the original server dies for some reason, chances are
    that somebody else might have picked up a copy and the data won't be lost.



Copyright © 2003 by Ulf Rehmann