ODF: Our Document Future Melbourne Novell Users Group Thursday, 14 May 2009 Donna Benjamin Director - Creative Contingencies President - Linux Users Victoria

Three Things Digital Preservation. Why does it matter? OpenDocument Format. What’s the big deal? Australian efforts on the Digital Preservation front

Persistence of Memory "Humans are the only known species to have devised information storage outside of brains - Libraries (and now the Internet) are a communal memory that permits communication across time.” Steven Dutch

Socrates and Plato

Storage Media

Four Elements There are four elements of digital technology that threaten our future access to stored data. The media on which it is stored. The hardware used to design & create it. The software used to create, read or edit that data and The standards we rely on to record and format data.

Technology Preservation

Emulation

Migration

Encapsulation

XML

OpenDocument Format

Open Vs Binary

ODF vs MSopenXML

Format Internals

Australia National Library PADI PANDORA Public Record Office of Victoria VERS National Archives of Australia Xena

PADI

PANDORA

VERS

National Archives of Oz

National Archives of Australia Digital Preservation Software

Latest Developments? March 2008 MS OOXML ratified as an ISO standard Major efforts at interop underway... … well sort of.

Latest Developments? October 2008 Germany adopts ODF as standard for office application documents February 2009 United Kingdom adopts ODF Joining countless other nations around the world to move to open standards for public documents. Netherlands, South Africa, Malaysia, Norway, Croatia, Russia, South Africa, Venezuela, Brazil...

Latest Developments? April 2009 Microsoft includes ODF support in Office 2007 SP2 May 2009 Debate over spreadsheet interoperability and Open Formula standards continue

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