[Dspace-general] Supported Formats, PDF

[Tyler Walters]

Hi Jeremy,

Here's a few links about the relatively new PDF/A (archival)
specification. To my knowledge, there is no batch way to convert
existing PDF files to PDF/A. You can do so in the current version
of Adobe Acrobat, one file at a time. Hopefully, there will be an
application developed soon to "batch" convert verious strains of
past PDF formats into the PDF/A standard, but I'm not aware of any
specific work at this point (other than Adobe being aware of this
need).

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdfs/pdfarchiving.pdf
http://www.aiim.org/article-pr.asp?ID=30413
http://www.educause.edu/E05/Program/5085?PRODUCT_CODE=E05/CORP07


Hope this helps some,

Tyler

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On Tue, May 9, 2006 7:03 pm, Scott Yeadon wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
>
>>Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 15:41:25 -0700
>>From: "Shellhase, Jeremy" <jcs at lib-mail.humboldt.edu>
>>Subject: [Dspace-general] Supported Formats, PDF
>>To: Dspace-general at mit.edu
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>>Hello All,
>>
>>I had a few quick questions for anyone running a Dspace
>> repository.
>>1) Have you decided to declare Adobe PDF a "supported" format?
>>
>>
> Yes, but all that means in our current policy is that the
> repository
> managers will undertake (in consultation with collection owners)
> migration of bitstreams of this format to a new format should it
> become
> obsolete or there is a risk it may become obsolete.
>
>>1.a.) If you have, has anyone undertaken any "functional
>> preservation" on
>>this or actually any other format?
>>
>>
> No. We are developing ways of assisting authors/content generators
> to
> create their materials in such a way that popular and
> archive-quality
> formats are used (for example, use of template sets so that
> documents
> can be archived in XML rather than a native/proprietary word
> processing
> package, acceptable formats for images, etc). This work is only in
> its
> infancy here at the moment. We haven't really looked at funtional
> preservation/emulation in any detail, to what extent functional
> preservation can be supported long-term is something that could be
> debated and discussed ad infinitum...a neat example has been
> developed
> by the National Library of Australia which converts databases to
> XML and
> attempts to emulate some basic functionality. This though requires
> negotiation with the db owner and requires some work per database.
> See
> http://www.nla.gov.au/xinq/ for more details.
>
>>1.b.) What was or will be the signal(s) that "functional
>> preservation" is
>>indicated for a particular format, like Adobe PDF.
>>
>>Thanks in advance. Feel free to respond off-list or on.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Jeremy
>>
>>Jeremy C. Shellhase
>>Systems Librarian
>>Humboldt State University Library
>>Arcata, [Northern]California USA
>>jcs7001 at humboldt.edu
>>
>>
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