[dundee] Digital freedom debate

[Andrew Clayton]

On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 21:26:10 +0100, gordon dunlop wrote:

> >   One area of digital freedom you may wish to consider and is
> > pertinent to
> Government, Education, Public Departments  and members of the public
> is the subject of using open source and open format in electronic
> documentation. This is where the avoidance of reliance on proprietary
> vendors prevents lock in, greater interoperability throughout with
> accessibility by the public without buying special software, also to
> ensure that legacy documents can be opened and read in the future
> e.g. in 30 years time. Recently the Indonesia Government migrated
> their agencies to open source and will be transferring all Government
> documentation to the open document format.
> 
> http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=id&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.detikinet.com%2Fread%2F2010%2F07%2F28%2F151112%2F1408538%2F398%2Fdokumen-negara-wajib-gunakan-format-odf%2F%3Fi991103105
> 
> This article uses Google Translator, pardon any minor grammer issues.

Also a few years ago at linux.conf.au there was a talk about digital
preservation at the National Archives of Australia.

http://lca2007.linux.org.au/talk/55.html

Andrew