[dundee] Digital freedom debate

[Gary Short]

The interesting topic here isn't one of proprietary formats versus open ones
to be honest. A few years ago I worked as an architect on the Scotland's
People web site, talking the archivists there I was told that all archivist
know that if you want to be sure that information is kept for posterity then
you have to write it in stone, like the Egyptians did. If you can't do that,
then write in on paper and absolutely never, ever keep it in electronic
format. They were very keen to point out that we were only digitizing the
information for ease of searching issues and certainly not for archiving
purposes. It was a very interesting POV and one I've remembered since.

 

Cheers,

Gary

 

From: dundee-bounces at lists.lug.org.uk
[mailto:dundee-bounces at lists.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of gordon dunlop
Sent: 05 August 2010 23:12
To: Tayside Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [dundee] Digital freedom debate

 

 

On 5 August 2010 22:52, Andrew Clayton <andrew at digital-domain.net> wrote:

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

 How many official government departmental documents are being made in .pub
or .docx format now. Nobody outside proprietary software can open them,
unless anyone can tell me how to do it in open source software without using
wine or the internet. 

Gordon
 

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

Andrew


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