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I am sure you have seen many mural size prints in shopping malls, outside buildings or in exhibitions. Most often, you are viewing them from a distance such that you can see the entire print.

Have you ever gone closer and see the details of the print? Let me use a mural size print in an exhibition as an illustration.

This document provides guidance on how to maximize the lifetime and usefulness of optical discs, specifically CD and DVD media, by minimizing chances of information loss caused by environmental influences or physical handling.

"Media deterioration is but one aspect of the preservation challenge. A potentially more immediate threat is technological obsolescence. Technological advances will no doubt make current optical disc types obsolete within several years."

For those who have dealt with web/graphic designer or printer before, you would probably get this request from them. “Give me the images in 72 dpi for web design,” or “Give me the images in 200 or 300 dpi for printing?” Is this mysterious DPI value an important factor for the quality of image used in Web publishing or printing?

I am not going to explain in details what is DPI (Dots Per Inch). I am also not going to explain where the value 72 comes from. I know how confusing it is when talking about DPI. My objective here is to make your life simpler.

In order to manage the collections efficiently, an institution took the initiative to catalogue its collections digitally a few years ago. Software was purchased for recording the collections that has a size of two thousand items. Many hard works and effort were put into data entry of the two thousand items. At the same time, many of the items were scanned using scanner.

A few years later.....