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On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Larry Medina <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Unfortunately, I can't get the pdf to open, but it was interesting to note
> Ms Wahl stated she was asked to write an article that turned into an
> opinion
> piece, so that may have some bearing on the content.
>
> This is a topic that has been discussed a lot in the scientific community
> over the past 10 years, with the push towards acceptance of PDF/A as "THE"
> standard format for persistent access and long term preservation for images
> captured of content.
>
> One of the examples I recall in these discussions- a highly detailed
> photograph is taken of a weld (supported by a radiograph) that indicates
> the
> "color" of the weld on a pressure vessel, something critical to use when
> doing evaluation of the weld at a future time.  Part of the problem is when
> imaging the photo, colors may not capture accurately, and the second issue
> is when portraying the images on a monitor, the colors may portray
> differently on different monitors depending on the resolution, video card,
> etc.
>
> For this reason, there are different standards for different uses and
> depending on whether you're capturing text, images, mixed content, and the
> purposes the resultant images must serve, there is a need for multiple
> standard to be applied to the process.
>
> And although this article isn't recent (2003) it was one of the best
> articles I recall reading about Standards and what they are (and aren't)
> and
> the terminologies used to describe them.  Thew primary focus of this is
> "online collaboration", but it's the discussion on the various types of
> what
> people refer to as STANDARDS that was most enlightening.  When I was Chair
> of the former ARMA Standards Committee, this article provided a lot of the
> guidance as we were working on projects.  http://bit.ly/8uTjBV
>
> Larry
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