http://www.osnews.com/story/14207/Case_Study_a_National_Archive_Moves_to_ODF Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:59:49 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?110800 http://www.osnews.com/thread?110800 And it makes sense to convert stuff to open document formats too. Recently a news item was aired in Holland on the Dutch national archives, and how they had so much trouble making all those old electronic documents accessible, as dealing with constantly varying Word and Word Perfect documents was a lot of hassle. Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ronald Vos) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?111069 http://www.osnews.com/thread?111069 http://www.becta.org.uk/

http://www.becta.org.uk/subsections/foi/documents/technology_and_ed...

lock-in with format by vendors is getting serious national attention in the uk Tue, 04 Apr 2006 06:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (alcibiades) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?111318 http://www.osnews.com/thread?111318 In addition to an open and openly documented format, an archive needs also an "open" and future-proof media. Believe it or not, books/printed material seems to be still the most future-proof and open of them all.

If someone can think of a better one, I dare you. Tue, 04 Apr 2006 19:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mario) Comments