From francis at franciscave.com Fri Oct 2 17:04:13 2015 From: francis at franciscave.com (Francis Cave) Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 16:04:13 +0100 Subject: FW: First set of format descriptions for ODF In-Reply-To: <782A4172A0B2974084984081338A769A43DBABF947@LCXCLMB01.LCDS.LOC.GOV> References: <782A4172A0B2974084984081338A769A43DBABF947@LCXCLMB01.LCDS.LOC.GOV> Message-ID: <038401d0fd23$99be69a0$cd3b3ce0$@franciscave.com> Dear members of SC 34/WG 6 I have received the message below from Caroline Arms, a contractor working for the Library of Congress whose brief is to report on the "sustainability" of office document file formats. If this interests you, please feel free to respond directly, using the Contact link provided below. Kind regards, Francis Cave Convenor From: Arms, Caroline Sent: 24 September 2015 15:23 Subject: First set of format descriptions for ODF The first batch of format descriptions for ODF has just gone into production: one for the ODF family as a whole, two for different versions of the package format (1.1 and 1.2), and two for the corresponding versions for .odt. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000247.shtml is the one for the family, from which you can navigate to the others. Feel free to share it with WG6 and other knowledgeable folks and encourage them to let us know if there are errors or significant omissions. Please remind people that the list of formats [ http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/browse_list.shtml ] for which we have produced descriptions is not a list of recommended formats, but a list of formats that are likely to be found in library collections, particularly libraries that collect unpublished materials, including "papers" of significant individuals or organizations (which now typically get delivered as or accompanied by files on disks many years after the files were created). The primary audience is people faced with the challenge of preserving for the long term content that they didn't create. The ODF spreadsheet formats for ODF 1.1 and 1.2 will be next, but with no firm commitment on timing. Should you wish to comment on these format descriptions, you should use the Contact link [ http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/contact_format.shtml ] that appears on every page on the site. Caroline Arms Library of Congress Contractor Co-compiler of Sustainability of Digital Formats resource http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/ ** Views expressed are personal and not necessarily those of the institution ** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: