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The UK Chapter of the PDF/A Competence Centre has been launched, as part of the global expansion of the organisation, to meet the needs of customers and companies that offer PDF/A products and services in the UK. To mark its launch the Chapter will be hosting a half day seminar in London on Friday 19 November with an aim to provide a comprehensive introduction to the PDF/A (ISO 19005) standard for long-term archiving of electronic documents. [...]
A Historic Setting for the 4th PDF/A Conference Sets the Stage for the Future
The PDF/A Competence Center, the professional association of the PDF/A community, expects great progress in PDF/A adoption over the next two years. The Center’s new Board reflects increasing international focus, with Germany’s Olaf Drümmer as the new chairman of the Board, new vice chair Duff Johnson from the United States and new Board member Stewart Rogers from the United Kingdom. [...]
PDF/A and Records Management in the Netherlands
As we all know, records management is “…the field of management responsible for the efficient and systematic control of the creation, receipt, maintenance, use and disposition of records, including processes for capturing and maintaining evidence of and information about business activities and transactions in the form of records.” (Source: ISO 15489). [...]
PDF/A at the Road and Transport Authority of Dubai
When the Road and Transport Authority (RTA) of Dubai was established in 2003, its main focus was to create and service a world-class infrastructure for Dubai. Handling the mammoth amount of information generated during the creation and servicing of this infrastructure was a big challenge. [...]
Session Intro – Track B: Public Administration
Since 2006, the requirement for using the PDF/A ISO standard as a preferred document format has been increasing in proposals and projects of public authorities and administrations. There are even some national agencies that now explicitly require PDF/A as their standard archiving format. This follows the concept of relying on open standards, instead of company-specific formats which can lead to problems in handling the documents in the future. [...]
nestor – the German Network of Expertise for Digital Preservation
nestor is the German competence network for digital preservation. Its purpose is to bring together the existing know-how and the competencies with regard to digital preservation in Germany. [...]
Website Archiving to PDF/A – Customer Story: UBS
UBS AG is implementing a ground-breaking project together with PDF Tools AG for archiving business-critical web pages in a manner compliant with auditing requirements. The result: enhanced security for documentation and review of communications contents. And the corporate archivist is very happy.
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Session Intro – Track A: Archives and Libraries
The articles in this chapter contain the content of the Conference Track A: Archives & Libraries. For archives and libraries, “long-term archiving” virtually means “forever”! Special measures are required for both hardware and software, and PDF/A can fulfil many of the requirements for software and file formats. [...]
Optimising PDF/A Documents for Large Archives
Nowadays, activities between enterprises and end-users are collectively referred to as B2C (Business to Consumer). This class of business, also commonly known as e-business, typically involves a high volume of communication in the form of offers, invoices, order confirmation, performance reports, policies or bank statements. While the volume of individual, physical documents (in the vernacular – letters) continues to fall in almost all countries, the percentage of electronic documents distributed as e-mail or via web portals increases disproportionately. When these documents have to be facsimiles of the original paper form there is no getting around PDF and as a consequence PDF/A. [...]
Accessibility in PDF and Elsewhere
We often forget that a significant percentage of all printed pages produced every year are not books, manuals, newspapers and other such documents. The bulk of printed output are the insurance policies, bank statements, telephone bills, invoices, statements and other documents that are sent to our homes. The quantity of these documents produced annually number in the hundreds of billions of pages. In the United States alone, over 80 billion transactional mail pieces are sent annually, each including multiple pages. [...]
