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

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

3. 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

4. Socrates and Plato

5. Storage Media

6. 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.

7. Technology Preservation

8. Emulation

9. Migration

10. Encapsulation

11. XML

12. OpenDocument Format

13. Open Vs Binary

14. ODF vs MSopenXML

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

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

17. PADI

18. PANDORA

19. VERS

20. National Archives of Oz

21. National Archives of Australia Digital Preservation Software

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

23. 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...

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

25. Thank You These slides are at http://www.cc.com.au/LUVmini-conf donna@cc.com.au