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It doesn't surprise me that the concept of "lossless compression" does
not seem to mean anything to the government.
After all, they never do the same work for less money so how can you
possibly store the same data in less space... ;-)

ST

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Jack Coats <jack@...> wrote:
> I saw a quip on TV the other day about the Library of Congress doing
> archiving of documents and pictures.
> They are doing everything in un-compressed TIFF to keep the best resolution.
>
> Their main thing is to save documents from 'bit rot' once they are
> digitized.  The synopis was expect to
> copy all your digital materials once every 5 to 10 years to the
> 'latest media', and expect to have to change
> format, so use non-compressing formats so nothing gets lost in the
> long run. ... Your tax money at work.
>
> I just thought that was interesting.
>
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