Re: XENA document archiving... integrate into OGo at some point?

Note:  Their Homepage at xena.sf.net is not very
Firefox friendly.  I had to use IE to view it.  Here's
an update to the supported info, from their homepage.

"For over a century, public servants have been
creating paper records that document the business of
government. But these days, handwritten notes and
typewritten letters have been replaced by emails,
electronic text documents and web pages. 

With constantly changing hardware and software, the
challenge for the National Archives of Australia is to
find a way to preserve valuable electronic records
into the future. We have been developing a way of
ensuring that electronic records can be migrated
across changes in technology. Our solution is software
that converts electronic records into a standardised
format that can be read by future technology. It is
called Xena, which stands for XML Electronic
Normalising of Archives. XML, which stands for
Extensible Mark-up Language, is essentially a standard
type of computer language that does not depend on
proprietary software or hardware to be read. 

We intend to support this format indefinitely, which
means that researchers will be guaranteed future
access to records of archival value. Access will not
be affected by changes in proprietary software and
hardware that occur so rapidly in the commercial
marketplace. 

This software is released as open source and for
comment by other national archives and interested
parties. We anticipate that the final product will be
essential for other organisations facing similar
preservation and access issues. 

Like paper records, electronic records of archival
value need to be stored after they have received
preservation treatment. After these records have been
converted into XML format, they will be stored in our
digital repository. 

The original digital records will also be retained and
stored in their original format in the digital
repository. This gives researchers the option of
viewing original records if they have the appropriate
software and hardware. 

Xena is implemented with a plugin architecture for
supporting various file formats. Currently the
following formats are supported and can be converted
to our standard XML: 

MS-Word, Excel, Powerpoint 
OpenOffice.org Writer, Calc, and Impress 
RTF 
PST email format 
TRIM email format 
MBOX email format 
IMAP email format 
Comma Separated Files (CSV) 
Relational Database 
JPG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, BMP 
HTML 
Web Sites 
Plaintext (various encodings) "


 --- Michael Brown <[email protected]> wrote: 
> I just ran accross this on the OOo mailing lists.
> 
<snipped previous>

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