Natasha

The National Archives of Australia is currently using ODF as a
preservation format for office documents.

More information at
http://www.naa.gov.au/records-management/secure-and-store/e-preservation
/at-NAA/index.aspx. You can also freely download a tool from
http://xena.sourceforge.net (which uses OpenOffice.org) to do the
transformation of office documents to ODF, as well as a wide range of
other proprietary standard documents to an openly specified format.

We are watching the emergence of OOXML with great interest.

John Lovejoy
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-----Original Message-----
> This means that organizations now have two standardized, XML-based
file
> formats to choose from in order to maximize the potential for
accessing
> electronic information over time.

You are wrong here. Neither ODF nor OOXML are considered suitable for 
long-term preservation (at least at the moment). Some countries have
listed 
one or both of them as recommended formats for collaborative work in
office 
environment, and that's all.

With best regards,
Natasha Khramtsovsky 

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