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This press release was received via the Digital-Preservation email list. Looking at the 27-page report, this caught my eye (p 23): PDF has become a widely used file format that is integrated into many desktop applications. Before adopting any of the PDF subset file formats, organisations must consider the alternative file formats that are available, understand their content (documents and records), and how they use electronic information. It is critical to understand the purpose of the electronic information as that will be a determining factor in choosing the file format to best suit the organisation's needs. The recommendation is not to use PDF blindly, but to use it when appropriate.
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The "Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP) is a new technical venture by an international consortium of publishers, and a proposed technical solution to the tug of war between publishers and intermediaries such as search engines and news aggregation sites. This article goes into some detail about ACAP and offers both a technical and a philosophical context for judging its impact and chances of success.
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