Information Science
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Digital curation is the selection, [ 1 ] preservation , maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Digital curation establishes, maintains and adds value to repositories of digital data for present and future use. [ 2 ] This is often accomplished by archivists, librarians, scientists, historians, and scholars. Enterprises are starting to utilize digital curation to improve the quality of information and data within their operational and strategic processes. [ 4 ] Successful digital curation will mitigate digital obsolescence, keeping the information accessible to users indefinitely.
Digital curation
Introduction Studies and user reports claim JPEG 2000 to be – or at least will become – the next archiving format for digital images [ 1 ]. The format offers new possibilities, such as streaming, and reduces storage consumption through lossless and lossy compression [ 2 ].
From TIFF to JPEG 2000? Preservation Planning at the Bavarian St