[Dspace-general] Fwd: [dspace-ERM] OpenReader

[MacKenzie Smith]

Of possible interest: a new initiative to build an open source, open 
standards page-layout
format and reader (ala PDF and Acrobat).

>From: RICKBARRY at aol.com
>Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 00:15:09 EST
>To: dspace-erm at mit.edu
>Subject: [dspace-ERM] OpenReader
>
>Dear MacKenzie and other colleagues:
>
>As I know that long-term access to digital documents, including electronic 
>records, is a subject of great interest to members of this list, as 
>reflected in postings on native format issues last month, I wanted to make 
>mention on this list of the OpenReader Consortium Project, of which I am 
>one of the founders. The project is aimed at developing an open source, 
>multi-media reader that can be used to gain long-term access and 
>readability for digital books, newspapers, and other documents and digital 
>objects. It will support multiple hardware and OS platforms. With the 
>intelligent use of the XML family of technologies, OpenReader will assure 
>the highest level of typographic presentation and the graceful reflow of 
>content for the full range of hardware types and reader settings. In 
>addition, the OpenReader System will satisfy the most rigorous 
>accessibility requirements. The growing volume of documentation in 
>proprietary formats was referred to by David Rothman, in his 
><http://www.teleread.org/blog>TeleRead blog, as the "Tower of eBabel."
>
>I hope that members of this list who are interested in this issue will 
>visit <http://www.openreader.org>www.openreader.org and/or contact me for 
>further functional, technical or partnership information on this project.
>
>Regards,
>
>Rick
>
>Rick Barry
><http://www.mybestdocs.com>www.mybestdocs.com
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MacKenzie Smith
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