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A consultancy paper for the Welcome Library - The Wellcome Trust is developing a digital library over the next 5 years, anticipating a storage requirement for up to 30 million images. The Wellcome previously has used uncompressed TIFF image files as their archival storage image format. However, the storage requirement for many millions of images suggests that a better compromise is needed between the costs of secure long- term digital storage and the image standards used.