InfoPeople's Webinar on Digital Preservation

Title:  Digital Preservation Fundamentals: Text and Image Formats

Presenters:  Jacob Nadal 

Date:  Tuesday, January 10, 2012; 2 pm

 This webinar will present and explain:

·         the basic formats and standards used in digital text and digital image collections for libraries, archives, and museums

·         the development of text and image formats

·         the significant technical features that pertain to digital libraries.

Text formats and encodings introduced include ASCII, Unicode/UTF-8, and the family of standards around XML, including HTML, CSS, and EAD. Imaging topics include formats and standards, particularly TIFF, JPEG and JPEG2000, and PDF, as well as issues inherent in color management and compression.

This webinar will last approximately one hour. Webinars are free of charge and registration is ONLY done on the day of the event on the WebEx server. No Passwords are required. 

 For Tips and Registration Information, please go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/tips.html

For more information and to participate in the January 10 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/digital-preservation-fundamentals-formats