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3. Standard Long Term Preservation Formats

3.4. TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)

Usage

Use for images (e.g. plans).

Standard

TIFF files must conform to the Baseline TIFF specification in ‘TIFF Revision 6.0, Final – June 3, 1992’ (http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/tiff/TIFF6.pdf visited 14 June 2006). In addition, the following extensions are allowed:

CCITT bilevel encodings.
LZW compression.

No other extensions are supported.

Suggested value of File Encoding (M128)

The following text is recommended for inclusion in the File Encoding (M128) element when the Encoding contains a TIFF image.

The content of the DocumentData element is a TIFF image. The file conforms to ‘TIFF Revision 6.0, Final – June 3, 1992’. The file has been encoded using Base64, which is defined in IETF RFC 2045 ‘Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies’, Section 6.8 ‘Base64 Content-Transfer-Encoding’.

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