[Commons-l] TIFF support is coming!

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi.
The one reason why we need TIFF documents is because museums and archives
typically store their digitised material as TIFF. When we receive digitised
material from a partnering organisation the best way to get it is as a TIFF.
Usually we get them as JPG but when we have a relation like with the
Tropenmuseum where we can request a super high resolution TIFF for
restoration. It is important to have this picture as a TIFF on Commons
because in that way we maintain a link with the original material. In this
way we also prove that the restoration is a best effort practice to make
historical material into something that retains its authenticity but is
useful as an illustration.

Yes, 100MB is not big even for single paged documents. The biggest file we
want to upload but cannot is over 600 Mb. Obviously they are a minority.
Thanks,
      GerardM

2009/9/12 Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com>

> John Vandenberg, 12/09/2009 01:23:
> > This is most relevant for Wikisource (of course..;-) .  Many people
> > walk away from Wikisource because they cant grapple with this DjVu
> > format we love.
>
> Even with DjVu, the 100 MB limit is often too low: how can TIFF be
> useful with multi-paged huge documents?
>
> Nemo
>
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