• Corpus ID: 13979065

Digital image formats suitable for museum publications

@inproceedings{Sylaiou2004DigitalIF,
  title={Digital image formats suitable for museum publications},
  author={Stella Sylaiou and Petros G. Patias and Olga Georgoula and Lazaros A. Sechidis},
  year={2004}
}

• Stella Sylaiou, P. Patias, +1 author L. Sechidis
• Published 2004
• Computer Science

More and more museums make use of digital technologies, in order not only to make their collections digitally accessible to the wide public and to contribute to the preservation of their exhibits, but also to augment the visitor’s understanding. Museum data are published in web pages at the Internet, or/and in closed networks (intranets) for their visitors. The main problem has to do with the slow speed of the Internet, with regard to the large amount of information–more specifically of pictures– that should be transferred. These images should have high resolution, in order to show adequately the details of the exhibits. However this involves pictures of large sizes and thus it creates storage and transmission problems of files. In order for these problems to be faced, new formats of pictures, such as FlashPix and JPEG2000 were created, that can manage the transfer of large amount of data and pictures of high resolution. This paper presents the comparative results of our research with regard to new formats of pictures and how can either traditional or virtual museums take advantage of the potential of these new technologies. 1 Archaeologist, MSc in Archaeological Computing, PhD Candidate in Dept. of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, [e-mail]. 2 Professor in Dept. of Cadastre, Photogrammetry and Cartography, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, [e-mail]. 3 Assistant Professor Dept. of Cadastre, Photogrammetry and Cartography, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, [e-mail]. 4 Survey Engineer, PhD, Post-doctoral researcher in Dept. of Cadastre, Photogrammetry and Cartography, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, [e-mail]. Ψηφιακά είδη εικόνων κατάλληλα για δημοσιεύσεις μουσείων