Investigate emerging file formats for long-term utility

• Image quality and metadata alterations during migration
• Review TIFF 7 (RDO), pdf, Flashpix, PNG, SPIFF, UPF, SGML/XML, CENSA standards?

Develop and apply requisite metadata (create a framework for "self-preserving" documents to enable them to proclaim themselves when their viability is threatened)

• Create persistent identifiers
• Embed important preservation information in file header and MARC (007) - investigate Dublin & RDF
• Preserve structure that organizes physical files into a logical document (enable persistent presentation of structuring information throught migration + establish a glossary of structuring terminology)

Determine functional requirements for storage, assess alternative storage solutions & implement (amalgate, manage, and preserve the collection)

• Evaluate HSM, RAID, linked magnetic hard drive: performance, reliability, security, etc.

Place the master files at the center of CUL digital library & develop on-the-fly conversion

• Investigate new compression techniques - Wavelet, Fractal, Digipaper, etc.
• Investigate processing images in real-time - OCR/SGML/PDF, and new formats/techniques such as SIF, UM, Picture Elements, Digital Book Binders, etc.