Microsoft throws governments a standardisation bone
News The British Library on Monday lauded Microsoft's move. It's an important step forward for digital preservation and will help us fulfil the British Library's core responsibility of making our digital collections accessible for generations to come...
[November 22, 2005, 8:30]
OpenOffice.org 2.2 released
News Apple, Barclays Capital, BP, The British Library, Essilor, Intel, Microsoft, NextPage, Novell, Statoil, Toshiba, and the United States Library of Congress all contribute to the Office Open XML project.
[April 3, 2007, 17:31]
Raiders of the lost archive
Leader The British Library, an organisation facing many of the same challenges as the NA, has admitted that the only thing organisations really know about digital preservation at the moment is how little they know.
[July 5, 2007, 17:41]
Report backs PDF variant for long-term archiving
News On Thursday the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), a UK-based not-for-profit organisation with the National Archives and the British Library among the membership, issued a report in which it called for PDF/A to be employed by organisations...
[April 24, 2008, 17:22]
Microsoft's standardisation move divides experts
News The British Library has also lauded Microsoft's move, saying in a statement that it would help it fulfil its "core responsibility of making our digital collections accessible for generations to come. Industry observers have expressed concern about...
[November 22, 2005, 16:55]
Microsoft researcher stores digital life
News Bell talked to ZDNet UK about the challenges posed in chronicling a life at the Digital Lives conference, hosted by the British Library in London on 10 February. You know, there was a survey they had [at the British Library] which showed that...
[February 12, 2009, 13:55]
OOXML debacle - time to take away ECMA's toys?
Blog Comment Farquhar (British Library) To Produce a formal Standard for office productivity documents which is fully compatible with the Office Open XML Formats Produce a standard which is fully compatible with the Office Open XML Formats, including full and...
[March 5, 2008, 13:45]
