<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Hubert Figuiere <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hub@figuiere.net">hub@figuiere.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">Reading archived file is not interchange. </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Nor is having the file format documentation a solution for long term archiving.</div><div><br></div><div>As Project Leader for ISO 19005 (PDF/A), I've spent a LOT of time with archivists, librarians and the like to understand what makes for "good archiving" and "bad archiving" - and it's a quite complex set of factors. This is why there was the need to create a "subset" of PDF for this specific purpose - and not just for the file format BUT ALSO a defined set of "conforming reader" requirements for viewers of the content.</div> <div><br></div><div>Documents - both the physical and the digital - need to be prepared for long term archiving (whatever your definition of "long term" is). Assuming that any arbitrary asset can be stored away for 100's of years is not correct - only with proper preparation. </div> <div><br></div><div>Leonard</div></div>