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I think when you're deciding what to scan you need to think about how
the scanned stuff is likely to be used.  If you expect it only to be on
a display, then scanning at 75dpi is probably adequate.  If you expect
it only to be printed, then you need scan it at 300 dpi (400 percent on
an HP Scanjet).  If you're going to require both, you should think about
either using PhotoCD technology which provides you with five levels of
quality or providing both 75 and 300 dpi.
 
I am in the process of writing a fairly large (it's at about 25 pages
and counting right now) paper (with my partner in crime) about the
issues involved in imaging museum objects.  This is for the Museum
Educational Site Licensing project and also for the August meeting of
SHARE, Inc., (a bunch of computer dudes) where I'm doing a 6-session
workshop on Web authoring.  I expect that practically all of the issues
that will obtain for MESL and SHARE will obtain for maps as well.  Once
the paper is finished, we expect to put it and its brethern on some Web
site as a .ZIPped .PS file and probably also as a .ZIPped plain text
file.  If somebody can remember to remaind me (in case I forget)
sometime in late September, I can tell you then where the paper can be
found.
 
HTH.
 
virginia
 
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