Editorial policy statement revised

Following our discussion at last week's staff meeting, I have revised the language about image processing in our editorial policy statement.

The relevant section previously read: We first obtain a high-resolution digital image (TIFF scanned at 600 DPI or photographed at 3008 x 2000 pixels) and enter it into a tracking database. This high quality image is the basis for the transcription. To prepare it for web presentation, the image is converted to JPEG file format, cropped, and color-corrected. It is saved in three file sizes to accommodate various users' needs.

The new, revised language: We first obtain a high-resolution digital image (TIFF scanned at 600 DPI or photographed at 3008 x 2000 pixels) and enter it into a tracking database. This high quality image is the basis for the transcription. To prepare it for web presentation, the TIFF image is cropped and then used to derive three different JPEG images of different sizes to accommodate various users' needs.

~Liz