Hello,
Anand Vaidya wrote: > http://ramblinglibrarian.blogspot.com/2007/07/sph-and-nlb-sign-agreement-for.html > SINGAPORE, 31 July 2007 – The National Library Board (NLB) and Singapore > Press > Holdings (SPH) today signed an agreement to digitise The Straits Times (ST) > archives dating as far back as 1845. [...] > Will it be infested with DRM or MS proprietary stuff or will it be clean > crossplatform application readable data (HTML/TXT) ? > Hopefully they'll support a fully documented (and open at least in the sense that the documentation is complete, accurate and free to download) standard such as PDF. PDF supports metadata that helps for searching documents (when properly filled that is) as well as compression (important when you have loads of documents). Additionally, PDF is supported on almost every platform. As long as they don't use .MDI (an old microsoft document format that I still receive once in a blue moon), .MDI is really nasty as even microsoft don't support it themselves. Have a nice day, Fabrice. -- Fabrice A. Marie FMA Risk Management Solutions http://www.fma-rms.com/ _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
