Information may be power, but it is also extremely fragile.
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Another format that is gaining popularity for digital document archiving is PDF/A, a subset of Adobe’s Portable Document Format that stores all the information needed to display the document within the file itself, eliminating reliance on outside programs that may not exist in the future. According to Trippe, AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) has already adopted this format.
“I think it’s a very good sort of low cost, low impact format,” he says. “I think it’s really attractive to be able to say, ‘OK, we’ve now collected all of this material. Let’s now have a workflow into PDF/A, and we know how to deal with PDF/A, and we have high confidence that PDF/A will work for the foreseeable future.’”
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