1. ODF: Our Document Future Linux Users of Victoria Mini-conf 17 March 2007, Ballarat Donna Benjamin - Director Open Source Industry Australia Inc. Creative Contingencies Pty. Ltd. MEL8OURNE.ORG - LCA2008

2. XTECH: Building Web 2.0 Open Data Track tagging, annotation and the semantic web People matter: identity, user data, trust, and writeable web, Information design for open data Licensing, IP, DRM, Creative Commons Open Access publishing, open science Open Government, OpenDocument Business models and issues for public-facing web services RSS, geocoding, FOAF, annotation http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/content/tracks#opendata

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

4. 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 http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/CosmosNotes/cosmos11.htm http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/CosmosNotes/cosmos11.htm

5. Socrates and Plato

6. Storage Media

7. 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 and create it. The software used to create, read or edit that data and The standards we rely on to record and format data.

8. Technology Preservation

9. Emulation

10. Migration

11. Encapsulation

12. XML

13. OpenDocument Format

14. Open Vs Binary

15. ODF vs MSopenXML

16. Format Internals http://opendocumentfellowship.org/Articles/IntroductionToTheFormatInternals

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

18. PADI

19. PANDORA

20. VERS

21. National Archives of Oz

22. National Archives of Australia Digital Preservation Software

23. Thank You These Slides will be at http://www.cc.com.au/LUVmini-conf or Email me :) donna@cc.com.au