Hi all, 

Some general thoughts on this topic. 

1. I don't understand the need to store as uncompressed TIFF as TIFF uses
lossless compression. 
2. Also not sure I'd recommend full color; for almost all documents scanning
in grayscale would result in a significantly smaller file size while still
preserving the document in a very high quality. 
3. Not sure that 600 dpi is required; note that NARA's 87-page guidelines do
call for 400-600 dpi as recommendations but support 300 dpi as alternate
minimums (p. 51). 
4. Today I'd probably still recommend TIFF over PDF for most usages; once
ISO 32000 is formally approved and the various vendors support output as ISO
32000-compliant PDFs, I will recommend PDF over TIFF for the following
reasons:
- Almost ubiquitous support for PDFs in the browser, making access easier
- Support for a text layer so the PDFs are full-text searchable
- Support for embedding metadata directly in the file using XMP

Regards, 

Jesse Wilkins
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