Graham
The conversions that Xena does are only as good as the conversion tools
we use. For example, we use OpenOffice.org to convert proprietary format
office documents to Open Document Format documents. It does a pretty
good job, but sometimes the formatting of the output document will be
slightly off. Early on in our thinking we realised that we would not be
able to ensure that we could preserve an absolutely identical copy of
the original, but we endeavour to capture the 'essence' of the
documents. See
http://www.naa.gov.au/records-management/publications/Approach-to-digita
l-preservation.aspx for a lot more information on what we are trying to
achieve.
We have a fairly comprehensive Quality Assurance stage in our digital
archive, so documents that are totally messed up will be flagged for
further action. We also keep the original document, so we can do the
conversion again if and when the conversion tools are updated.
Hope this helps.
John Lovejoy
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National Archives of Australia
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Subject: [RM] National Archives of Australia releases Xena 4.0
John:
This sounds good. I have one question though......Has there been, or do
you
expect any challenges due to a change in format from its original record
format to the new format?
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From: John Lovejoy <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sep 23, 2007 6:13 PM
Subject: National Archives of Australia releases Xena 4.0
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Our Xena digital preservation software is a free and open source tool
for digital preservation. Xena may be used as a desktop application or
(more commonly) via its application programming interface to perform its
two key tasks from within other digital preservation workflows. Xena is
designed to:
* Determine file formats
* Convert files into standards based, open formats for preservation
Key new features in the 4.0 release of Xena are:
* Export facility (un-Xenafy) is now available through the viewer
interface
* Audio plugin is now included by default
* Image file metadata is now extracted from image headers
* Archive plugin (zip, bzip, gzip etc) is now included
Please take a look at the new Xena website http://xena.sourceforge.net
and download your copy, then let us know what you think.
Thanks,
Michael Carden
Technical Manager
Digital Preservation
National Archives of Australia
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