Thanks John:

On 9/24/07, John Lovejoy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> 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
> [log in to unmask]
> Digital Preservation
> National Archives of Australia
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graham Kitchen [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 1:25 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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?
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: John Lovejoy <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sep 23, 2007 6:13 PM
> Subject: National Archives of Australia releases Xena 4.0
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> 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
> 61 2 6212 6223
> http://naa.gov.au
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