Gilheany monograph on digital imaging file sizes

[Richard Wiggins]

Steve has included a really useful collection of numbers in his course
materials, putting in perspective the various file sizes required for
various forms of scanned images. It's sort of a "table of measures" for the
digital age. A sample is in his bio, but the whole 6 pager is really worth a
look. I think a lot of folks might want to put this on a bulletin board or
office door.  See:

http://www.archivebuilders.com/whitepapers/22009v105gp.pdf

Have you seen those Avery Brooks commercials for IBM where he asks "How many
Libraries of Congress per second can your software handle?" Steve's document
doesn't define that metric, but it does define "yottabyte," which Brooks
also uses.

Say, how much data would the entire collection of the Library of Congress
represent? Steve, can you figure that out and squeeze this into your chart?
:-)

/rich

Richard Wiggins
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