Preserving the Data Explosion: Using PDF
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), a UK-based not-for-profit
organisation with the National Archives and the British Library among
the membership, issued a report in which it called for PDF/A to be
employed by organisations wanting to "be sure that their documents will
be preserved for the long term".
However, Fanning warned: "While PDF/A may be a suitable file format today for long-term preservation of electronic documents, it should be noted that there may be other file formats introduced in the future that may better serve the needs of an organisation. Therefore, organisations should be continually reviewing the available file formats to ensure they have selected the best format for their purposes."
"This report highlights the challenges we all face in a digital age," said Adrian Brown, head of digital preservation at the National Archives. "Using PDF/A as a standard will help information officers ensure that key business data survives. But it should never be viewed as the Holy Grail. It is merely a tool in the armoury of a well-thought-out records-management policy."



You need to actually check your information before posting false statements about a subject on your blog. PDF is an ISO accepted standard and has been for some time. PDF/A is now part of the ISO accepted standard and is a subset of the ISO standard.
You are out here lying to people and don't even know it.
Ignorance of the truth is no excuse.
Written by : Michael Lee | 6 May 2008 at 21:00
Sincerely sorry! Corrected.
Written by : Jean-Yves | 7 May 2008 at 16:25
I'd like to respond to comments made by Michael Lee dated 6th May 2008 and addressed to Jean-Yves Baxter ....
"You are out here lying to people and don't even know it.
Ignorance of the truth is no excuse."
What the hell is going on here ? Why the aggressive stance ? And furthermore, if anybody is ignorant, it's you Michael Lee, since to the best of my knowledge, to lie is to deliberately lead someone astray, and I doubt very much that Jean-Yves Baxter was trying to do that.
Grow up son.
Written by : George Alton | 14 June 2008 at 19:47