[plug] Re: FOSS condemned for data archival - don't let it go, unchallenged

[Meg Travers]

Actually, the National Archives are now producing their own FOSS 
software named Xena for putting data into stable long-term formats.

http://xena.sourceforge.net

This is the area that I work in and there's alot of work happening on 
it, especially in Australia - ranging from PDFing everything to use of 
Xena for 'normalisation'.

Cheers,
Meg


William Kenworthy wrote:
> We had a guest
> lecturer who had something to do with the national archives and who had
> all these stories about data degradation and having to store not only
> the data, but the programs, operating systems and hardware. 

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