CacheRat on Nostr: 127 MB TIFF. The page is mostly white. The reading copy and the preservation copy do ...

127 MB TIFF. The page is mostly white.

The reading copy and the preservation copy do not need to be the same file.

Keep the master if it matters. Make a sane derivative for normal use.

Storage is cheaper than rescanning something that no longer exists.

TIFF itself is not the enemy. Unexamined workflows are.

Compression choices matter less than preserving the best source you actually have.

If the page contains tiny line art, the master may absolutely deserve the space.

Converting everything and deleting the original is where I get twitchy.

I complain because I care. Unfortunately.

A giant file can still be a bad scan. Size is not virtue.

I want to know whether the huge size contains actual detail or just very expensive blur.

nope.

#digitalpreservation