Good morning everyone, I need to call upon your expertise on something. The New York State Archives is currently creating the metadata standards for our digital images and one of the elements we're working on is the Digital Specifications element taken from the latest format of CDP Metadata Working Group on Dublin Core Metadata best practices. We're trying to think ahead ten to fifteen years down the road when new computer programs are up and trying to determine what kinds of information will be useful to the Digital Imaging Archivist or the Electronic Records Archivist at that time to preserve the image in the format we are creating today. Do we need to give the hardware, software and operating system that the image was created on? Should we include the spatial resolution, the quality of bit depth and the compression of the image? We're trying to find the median between too much information and enough information to maintain the image in years to come. We've also examined the Arizona Memory Project, Michigan's Dublin Core elements, Dublin Core, and NARA. Could you offer any advice on what kind of information, if there is any, that should be recorded about the creation of the image? Any advice you could offer would be wonderful. Thank you so much for your time and have a wonderful weekend! Best, Emily Southworth Archives and Records Management Specialist 1 Accessioning and Special Projects New York State Archives (518) 473-4255 A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>