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The National Archive in the UK has issued a statement expressing concern over the amount of data locked up in proprietary file formats. Microsoft have stepped up to the plate to take advantage of the situation, created largely by their own policy.
Ms. Ceeney, of the Archive said society faced the possibility of "losing years of critical knowledge" because modern PCs could not always open old file formats.
She was speaking at the launch of a partnership with Microsoft designed to ensure the Archives could read old formats. Microsoft's UK head Gordon Frazer warned of a "looming digital dark age".
It turns out the National Archives, which holds 900 years of written material, has more than 580 terabytes of data in older file formats that are no longer commercially available.
To give it due credit the article mentions the nature of proprietary file formats and Microsoft's tendency to force changes in this area but then goes on to talk about the wonder that is OpenXML.
Quoting:Mr Frazer said: "It's an open international standard under independent control. These are no longer under control of Microsoft and are free for access by all."
I guess they will not stop lying as long as there are people who keep believing them, like Adam Farquhar
Quoting:Adam Farquhar, head of e-architecture at the British Library, praised Microsoft for its adoption of more open standards.
He said: "Microsoft has taken tremendous strides forward in addressing this problem. There has been a sea change in attitude."
I always wondered if they had idiots in key position over in GB like we have here in the US. No need to wonder any more.
Quoting:"Automation is a key area to work on. We need to be able to convert hundreds and even thousands of documents at a time," he said.
mkdir new
for f in *.doc; do
catdoc ${f} > ./new/$(basename ${f} .doc).txt
done
That'll be one million dollars please and thank you.
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I always wondered if they had idiots in key position over in GB like we have here in the US. No need to wonder any more.