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The US Library of Congress states a preference for PDF/UA conformance over PDF/A alone. [...]
White Paper on Archiving and NARA compliance including PDF/A
White paper about digital government from Adlib Software [...]
PDF/A and embedded files
In his blog at the Open Planets Foundation Johan van der Knijff from the National Library of the Netherlands discusses what is meant by “embedded” files in PDF/A. The [...]
Harvard Law’s Digital Library Project Gets Large Donation
Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society has received a $5 million donation to create a large-scale digital library, which would include collections from museums, libraries, and additional archives. The contribution from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Arcadia Fund will support an intensive, two-year, grassroots effort to create a working plan for the digital library, according to Law Technology News. “The concept of a national digital library has bounced around since the early 1990s but has yet to be realized,” writes the author. [...]
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 [...]
PDF/A Presented at Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference
Attendees at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference were offered a session on the benefits and uses of PDF/A. Presenter Geof Huth offered an in-depth look file format confusion, when and how to use a file preservation format and the advantages and disadvantages of PDF and PDF/A. PDF/A-1 and PDF/A-2 were both discussed, as well as the other “flavors” of PDF and several PDF/A creation and validation products. [...]
US National Institutes of Health Offers PDF/A Option for MEDLINE Indexing
Beginning May 1, the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health has modified its policy for indexing articles from electronic-only journals. To be indexed in MEDLINE an electronic-only publication must provide NLM with XML-tagged data of its bibliographic citations; provide robust current access to all its content under a license allowing efficient support of NLM operations, onsite services, and interlibrary loan, and have an acceptable archival arrangement and access to the published content. [...]