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Digital curation. The term curation in the past commonly referred to museum and library professionals.

Digital curation

It has since been applied to interaction with social media including compiling digital images, web links and movie files. Approaches to digital curation[edit] The Digital Curation Centre is a "world leading centre of expertise in digital information curation"[5] that assists higher education research institutions. The DCC is based in the UK and began operations in early 2004. The following is a general outline of their approach to digital curation: Digital Curation Blog. From TIFF to JPEG 2000? Preservation Planning at the Bavarian St.

Introduction Studies and user reports claim JPEG 2000 to be – or at least will become – the next archiving format for digital images [1].

From TIFF to JPEG 2000? Preservation Planning at the Bavarian St

The format offers new possibilities, such as streaming, and reduces storage consumption through lossless and lossy compression [2].