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

[Jerry Askew]

There is really only one explanation...  Xenaphobia.

:-P

-Jerry
 

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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
http://www.naa.gov.au
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