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PDF Association member Gary Hodkinson offers a very thorough overview of digital document archiving, including storage, durability, software, file formats, conversion, benefits and more. He examines the benefits of PDF/A to law firms and its use by the U.S. Courts, but notes some overall archiving concerns as well. [...]
Tips to Make a Portable Document Format Archive Using Distiller
The use of PDF/A is on the rise by government, courts, libraries and many, many more organizations around the world. If you’d like to work on your own archive, Dino Londis provides simple, step-by-step instructions for making PDF/A files using Distiller [...]
Oracle Acquires Endeca, Jumps into Data Management
Oracle Tuesday announced it was acquiring Endeca, which builds software upon a database and search system to aid business intelligence. “The combination of Oracle and Endeca is expected to create a comprehensive technology platform to process, store, manage, search and analyze structured and unstructured information together,” Oracle said on its acquisition web site. The company is a competitor to Autonomy, which Hewlett-Packard acquired earlier this year. [...]
ARMA: News from All Over
This week’s ARMA conference saw news from many organizations on the document and information management front. According to Evan Koblentz at Law Technology News, Iron Mountain plans to use Microsoft SharePoint server in plan for records management; EMC is preparing bug fixes and SharePoint integration for the existing version 6.7 of its Documentum Records Adapter. Also,” Hewlett-Packard data architect Lou Harvey declared that 60 percent of most data in corporate systems is of no value; and the PDF Association showed its upgraded specification for making archive-specific file formats.” [...]
Botanical Group Chooses PDF for E-Publication
The International Botanical Congresses (IBC) has decided to embrace PDF. According to a post on the group’s website, “Electronic material published online in Portable Document Format (PDF) with an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) or an International Standard Book Number (ISBN) will constitute effective publication.” Changes will go into effect on 1 January 2012. Read the full article for more information. [...]
CDF as a Competitor to PDF?
Likely not much will ever come of the Computable Document Format, or CDF. However, its proponents hope to position it as “better” than PDF and other document formats by claiming it allows readers to better interact with data. In his post, blogger Paul Boutin describes CDF creator Wolfram Research’s hopes that CDF will “become an established publishing standard adopted by the makers of document editing and viewing software. In a series of interactive demos and videos, Wolfram Research claims CDF documents beat existing formats at interactivity and flexibility, yet don’t require a programmer to create.” [...]
Adobe Acquires PDF E-Signature Maker EchoSign
Adobe Systems announced it will acquire EchoSign, a maker of an electronic signature service. According to Computerworld, Adobe plans to integrate the technology into the Acrobat family of PDF document services in an endeavor “to reduce the time, cost, and complexity associated with having a document signed…and plans to discontinue…a cloud-based electronic signature service, called eSignatures or eSign, that it released in May last year.” [...]