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04/04/2006 Australian National Archive Switches to open document standard |
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The National Archive of Australia (NAA) has made the decision to move it's digital archives program over to software that supports the Open Document Format (ODF). The ODF is a public standard for documents created by office productivity suites.
The NAA's primary interest in using ODF for long term storage of
documents is highlight by Michael Carden, preservation software manager
at the National Archives of Australia who said:
"We can't tell people 'we only accept this file format'. We have to deal with whatever comes our way."
The bulk of documents the NAA receives deals with office productivity suites. As a result converting them into a open standard long term preservation become far easier.
Carden said its paper documents, if kept in perfect conditions should
last well over 100 years. Digital information should also be afforded
that luxury
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