7. Presentation

Key Concepts

introduction
formats/compression
web browsers
network
scaling
monitors
image quality
guidelines

additional reading

GUIDELINES

To see what some institutions recommend for display, click on: Table: Representative Institutional Requirements for Access

ADDITIONAL READING

Anne R. Kenney, "Digital Benchmarking for Preservation and Access," in Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives, Mountain View, CA : Research Libraries Group, 2000; pp. 24-60 http://www.rlg.org/preserv/mtip2000.html

John Price-Wilkin, "Enhancing Access to Digital Image Collections: System Building and Image Processing," in Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives, Mountain View, CA: Research Libraries Group, 2000; pp. http://www.rlg.org/preserv/mtip2000.html

Color and Tone
Lynda Weinman, "The Browser Safe Color Palette," http://www.lynda.com/hex.html and http://the-light.com/netcol.html. Both of these have links to other useful sites on browser palettes and other Web graphics information.

Digital Images in Multimedia Presentation, "Image Manipulation and Preparation," http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/using/dimpmanipulation.html

The Bandwidth Conservation Society, http://www.tbcr.org/

Scaling Routines and Programs
Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton, "Web Style Guide," http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/contents.html

Wotsit's Graphic File Formats http://www.wotsit.org/search.asp?s=graphics

Anne R. Kenney and Louis H. Sharpe II, Illustrated Book Study: Digital Conversion Requirements of Printed Illustrations, 1999, http://lcweb.loc.gov/preserv/rt/illbk/ibs.htm

TASI, "DIMP WWW - Image Incorporation Case Study," http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/using/web_case.html

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