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PDF/A Conference articles from the proceedings online

PDF Association | December 10, 2012

You can read now all articles from the 3rd International PDF/A Conference on pdfa.org now. The complete overview of the papers.

Proceedings PDFA Conference 2009

Proceedings 2009 – 3rd International PDF/A Conference in Berlin

PDF Association | September 3, 2012

In Summer 2009 the 3rd International PDF/A Conference took place in Berlin. This is a compilation of all articles and presentations [...]

Session Intro – Track D: Health Care

Bernd Wild | July 1, 2009

Health care is an application area that is currently subject to radical digitalization. On the one hand, the growth of classic paper archives is becoming a logistical and organisational problem, due to the current flood of documents that must be maintained for at least 30 years. On the other hand, the increasingly electronic formats of laboratory, X-ray, clinical and examination systems demand adequate electronic archiving. [...]

Session Intro – Track C: Business to Consumer (e.g. Banks, Insurances, Telcos)

Harald Grumser | July 1, 2009

In the business-to-consumer relationship, the topic of PDF/A also crosses over to the consumer. [...]

From Medical Forms to PDF/A Documents

Michael Obenland | July 1, 2009

The “Praxis für Strahlentherapie” in Singen is a radiotherapy practice. We treat around 140 people a day with a staff of more than 20 people. The institution was built new from scratch in 2007, so we had the advantage of no inherited bad habits and were able to define our workflow without inherited burden. A good workflow is essential for every radiotherapy institution. Nearly all of the patients who come to us for treatment have had some other previous treatments (surgery, chemotherapy…). They come to us with a pile of papers describing treatments, actual blood values and diagnostic findings. Using the information we get we make a therapy plan, the therapy is carried out and in the end a letter is sent to every clinic or physician involved. [...]

XMP Metadata in PDF/A – European Patent Documents in PDF/A

Klaus Baumeister | July 1, 2009

The European Patent Office EPO publishes patent documents in XML format with embedded images in TIFF Fax G4 and additionally in PDF format. According to the European Patent Convention, the new patent applications and specifications are published every week on Wednesday 2 p.m. on data carriers and online via the publication server of the EPO (http://www.epo.org/publication-server). The number of new weekly publications depend on the application and granting activity, but it sums up to 4,000 documents. Since its foundation in 1978 when EP No. 1 was published on the 12th of December, the European Patent Office has published around 3.3 million patent documents. The global intellectual property database espacenet storing all electronically available patent documents worldwide contains currently around 80 million patent documents and is growing yearly by more than 2 million documents. [...]

Life Without Metadata?

Frank Biederich | July 1, 2009

What does it mean – “without metadata”? Metadata is everywhere. We have to deal with it each and every day; sometimes it’s critical for us – sometimes it’s in our way. Although metadata is so ubiquitous the term itself has no broad awareness in our society. Ask your friends what metadata is all about and if they are not IT specialists you might not get an answer. But you’ll find metadata on every milk bottle, every pharmaceutical product and on the passport in your wallet. But what would happen if there would be no metadata at all? [...]

Pros and Cons of PDF/A for Long-Term Archiving

Berndhard Zoller | July 1, 2009

How the times have changed! There are hardly any more silly discussions about why TIFF is audit-proof (it actually never was) but not PDF. Or why PDF files can be manipulated (correct, as with every other document format) and TIFF presumably not (although due to its simple bitmap structure, it’s actually easier to edit a TIFF than a PDF). Some three years after having been published as an ISO standard, the opinion about PDF/A has completely changed, thanks in part to the countless publications and presentations about PDF/A. PDF and PDF/A are the preferred formats in the DMS / archiving market. [...]

The Publications Office Digital Library Project

Anton Zagar | July 1, 2009

The European Publications Office (‘the Office’) is currently digitising its historic archive of around 130 000 publications dating back to 1952. The aim is to make the entire collection accessible for free download and online consultations by October 2009. Outsourced industrial, non-destructive mass digitisation enables production, delivery and upload of 1.5 million pages per month. The main delivery is a PDF/A-1b file containing bookmarks, basic metadata and a background text layer. [...]

Digital Preservation – Retrospective Digitization and PDF/A

Hans-Joachim Hübner | July 1, 2009

These days, many cultural institutions (scientific and public libraries as well as state, private and ecclesiastic archives) are digitializing valuable cultural assets such as books, prints and maps. Along with the aim of enabling a broad public or scientific use or to protect valuable originals from direct access, this process is used in order to preserve the historic originals and to securely store them in the most optimal environmental conditions. [...]