Developing and using PDF/A for archiving of Electronic Documents
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Developing and using PDF/A for archiving of Electronic Documents
Thirty or more years from now, society will need ways to access the billions of pages of electronic documents created annually today - from legal documents, cultural heritage records to academic dissertations and theses - despite the fact that computer software used to create those documents, may be obsolete. In 2005, a working group of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has ratified PDF/Archive, or PDF/A, as a standard for preserving electronic documents and records for the long haul. Issues of archiving paper and electronically born documents will be addressed, the issues of selecting a file format meeting requirements of archivists as well as the way how these issues have been dealt with onto the publication of an ISO archiving file format standard for long term preservation of electronic documents. The practical side of implementing archiving systems will be discussed and how businesses and government organizations are using PDF/A to archive and preserve electronic documents and other works. Also, the position of an archived electronic document in a document management environment will be described. Finally, a preview will be provided on new topics within the area of archiving documents.
2008