[odf-discuss] Slashdot: Archiving Digital Data an Unsolved Problem

[Michael Carden]

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From: Jerry Askew [mailto:jerry at askew.net]
> I think this guy at the US national archives needs to take a look at what the Australians are doing with XENA.


We have spoken with people at NARA a few times, though not with Ken Thibodeau, and they are aware of our work. Their decision was to give Lockheed Martin US$308 million to go and (re)invent that particular wheel. Not that we can tell just what it is they're developing with all that money, but conference presentations available on the internet seem to suggest that the NARA approach closely mirrors ours.

Heck, I would have sold them a copy of Xena for only $208 million. Or they could get it free from sourceforge like everyone else. :-)

Cheers,

Michael Carden
Preservation Software Manager
Digital Preservation
National Archives of Australia
61 2 6212 6223
michael.carden at naa.gov.au
http://xena.sourceforge.net
http://dpr.sourceforge.net
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