The TIFF/A Initiative has announced its kickoff online conference for September 15 at 3 PM CEST. TIFF/A (see my earlier post) is a proposal for a set of rules, not yet defined, for archival-quality TIFF files. It’s still possible to sign up for participation. According to the email, the conference will cover:
- Short presentation of the team
- Aim of the project
- Recommendation for the use of a Tested TIFF for Archives (TTA) vs. standardization of file format (TIFF/A)
- Potential legal problems of standardization
- Proceeding and schedule of the project
- Evaluation and discussion of TIFF features
- Evaluation and discussion of already existing assets in GLAM institutions
- Deduction of valid and approved file feature set
- Finalization of the resulting document
- Description of the platform (Intranet)
- Q and A
The people on the TIFF mailing list, which libtiff’s maintainers use to communicate with users, apparently haven’t notied TIFF/A yet. I wonder what their thoughts on it might be.
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