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

[Lars D. Noodén]

I wonder if 60 Minutes or some other program would be interested in all 
that.  Without the details it's hard to know just how much effort is being 
wasted, but if it's significant maybe the US government's fraud, waste and 
abuse bounty program is still active.

Maybe online sources like Wired, TheInquirer.net or TheGuardian.co.uk 
might be interested.

Maybe nothing bad is going on, but it would be useful to have a comparison 
of Xena and NARA's Lockheed-Martin project.

-Lars
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On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Michael Carden wrote:
>
> 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