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Emulating Obsolete Document Formats

ACM News Service: NARA Conference Demonstrates Emulation Technologies.  The preservation of electronic documents is not so well-established as the archival preservation of printed materials, and emulation of no-longer available software implemented on no-longer-available platforms is one avenue for preservation of access.  This blurb features the open-sourced Multivalent, a Java-based universal document viewer (with plug-ins accepted) from Robert Wilensky's team at Berkeley, and GridForum's DFDL project for an XML-based Format Description Language that is useful for specifying how to pull data from binary-format document files.

Joab Jackson's 2004-11-18 Government Computer News article provides more discussion and links to the sources.

posted by orcmid at 12/1/2004 06:21:00 PM, rating data by NewsGator Online