Securing Digital Image Assets in Museums and Libraries: A Risk Management Approach.

From: Library Trends | Date: September 22, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

THERE IS AN OBVIOUS NEED FOR ONGOING RESEARCH, evaluation, and planning if museums and archives are committed to protecting their digital image assets. A number of potential threats to the integrity of digital image information can be identified when standard practices in museums and archives are examined. Changes in the integrity of digital image information can be caused by the manner in which the source data are acquired and recorded and by modifications made to the image data file. Alterations made to contextual data can limit valid interpretation of the ...

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