AW: ISO TC46 meeting

[Eckert, Klaus-Peter]

Dear all

 

We had a project together with the German DIN about document archiving and open document standards. Unfortunately, the project report (http://publica.fraunhofer.de/eprints/urn_nbn_de_0011-n-3433710.pdf ) has been written in German.

In short two results are important:

*         From a technical point of view the definition of the term  document is different in the archiving world and in the “SC34” world. We are talking about OOXML, ODF, PDF, … files. An archived document is a container containing objects (our documents) together with some metadata. These metadata a quite similar to the metadata in our zip-archives but a “general” document has no internal description. The de-facto standard “Open Archival Information System-OAIS (ISO 14721)” introduces a “archival information package” that contains data/content together with “preservation description information”.

*         From a political point of view the German recommendations for archives refer to an old version of recommended standards (SAGA) that contains PDF and ODF 1.0 (yes, these recommendations are really old) as recommended document formats. Even the 2015 recommendations refer to these outdated versions.

Best regards

Klaus-Peter 

 

Dr. Klaus-Peter Eckert

Electronic Government and Applications – Elan

Fraunhofer-Institute for Open Communication Systems – FhI FOKUS

Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31    10589 Berlin    Germany

Phone +49(0)30 3463 7227, Fax +49 (0)30 3463 99 7227

 

Von: eb2mmrt at gmail.com [mailto:eb2mmrt at gmail.com] Im Auftrag von MURATA Makoto
Gesendet: Freitag, 5. Juni 2015 16:06
An: SC34
Betreff: FYI: ISO TC46 meeting

 

Dear colleagues,

 

Yesterday, I attended a meeting of the EPUB JWG, which 

was held together with the ISO TC46 plenary.

 

They are interested in long-term preservation of EPUB 

and office documents.

 

I heard that OOXML is not recognized as a long-term 

preservation format by many countries.  It appears that 

ODF is.

 

I think that nothing in the OOXML spec and nothing in 

the ODF spec justifies the recognition mentioned above.

The only reasonable reason would be the fact that LIbreOffice and 

OpenOffice are open source software.  But I certainly 

hope that the enormous amount of work by WG4 

is recognized more.

 

Regards,

Makoto

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