Fwd: FW: First set of format descriptions for ODF

Greetings!

    

    Francis Cave forwarded this report on "sustainability of ODF
    documents."

    

      I haven't read the report but look forward to hearing your
      reactions.

      

      Hope everyone is at the start of a great weekend!

      

      Patrick

      

      PS: Thanks Francis!

      

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            FW: First set of format descriptions for ODF
          

          

            Date: 
            Fri, 2 Oct 2015 15:58:04 +0100
          

          

            From: 
            Francis Cave <>
          

          

            To: 
            Patrick Durusau <>
          

        
      
      

      

      
      
      
      

        
Hi Patrick

        
 

        
I have
            received the message below from Caroline Arms, a contractor
            working for the Library of Congress whose brief is to report
            on the “sustainability” of office document file formats.
            Please could you forward this to other members of the ODF
            TC, who are likely to be interested in what she is saying
            about the sustainability of ODF documents. 

        
 

        
I will also
            forward this to the WG 6 list.

        
 

        
Kind
            regards,

        
 

        
Francis

        
 

        
 

        
 

        

          

            
From: Arms, Caroline

                Sent: 24 September 2015 15:23

                Subject: First set of format descriptions for ODF

          

        

        
 

        
The first batch of
            format descriptions for ODF has just gone into production: 
            one for the ODF family as a whole, two for different
            versions of the package format (1.1 and 1.2), and two for
            the corresponding versions for .odt.

        
 

        
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000247.shtml  is the one for the family, from which you can
            navigate to the others.

        
 

        
Feel free to share it
            with WG6 and other knowledgeable folks and encourage them to
            let us know if there are errors or significant omissions. 
            Please remind people that the list of formats [ http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/browse_list.shtml ] for which we have produced descriptions is
            not a list of recommended formats, but a list of formats
            that are likely to be found in library collections,
            particularly libraries that collect unpublished materials,
            including “papers” of significant individuals or
            organizations (which now typically get delivered as or
            accompanied by files on disks many years after the files
            were created).  The primary audience is people faced with
            the challenge of preserving for the long term content that
            they didn’t create.  

        
 

        
The ODF spreadsheet
            formats for ODF 1.1 and 1.2 will be next, but with no firm
            commitment on timing.

        
 

        
Should you wish to
            comment on these format descriptions, you should use the
            Contact link [ http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/contact_format.shtml ] that appears on every page on the site.

        
 

        
Caroline Arms

        
Library of Congress
            Contractor

        
Co-compiler of
            Sustainability of Digital Formats resource    http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/

        
 

        
** Views expressed are
            personal and not necessarily those of the institution **