Aloha,

I would definitely not allow the pdf to be the only version and highly
advocate the highest resolution of .tif your server/memory could handle.
I've been informed by our colleagues in New Zealand dejavue is another
portable document format which is superior to Adobe's product.  So
insist on .tif which will allow you to convert to other portable
document formats whichever you may choose.

Helen Wong Smith, MLIS, CA
Historical/Cultural Specialist
Land Assets Division - Kamehameha Schools
537 S. King St., Suite 200
Honolulu, HI 96813

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 We are working on a digitization project which involves scanning
original documents from our archival collection. The web master want to
scan these letters, correspondence, etc into PDF without creating a
master file. From my research, we should scan all original documents in
TIFF as the master files. Maybe the PDF can be the means in which people
access the documents. It was stated that both the Florida Digital
Archive and the Deep Blue repository at the University of Michigan find
this compliance an acceptable archival format.

http://www.fcla.edu/digitalArchive/pdfs/PDFGuideline.pdf#search=%22adobe
%20acrobat%20professional%20A-1b%20standard%22

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/about/deepbluepreservation.jsp

However, I want to get the opinion of my colleagues.

Thanks

Nooma Monika Rhue, MLIS
Archivist/Archival Services Librarian
Inez Moore Parker Archives and Research Center
Johnson C. Smith University
100 Beatties Ford Road
Charlotte, NC 28216
704-371-6741
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