As much as we were looking forward to PDF Days Europe 2020, including celebrating with our colleagues and friends, the coronavirus and related dynamics affecting both speakers and attendees has led us to conclude that the event is no longer feasible.
The Signal, a Library of Congress blog, has a new post about archiving with PDF by the Library of Congress’ Kate Murray, the PDF Association’s Duff Johnson, and Kevin De Vorsey of the National Archives and Records Administration.
Archives, libraries, and other memory institutions have experimented with PDF for archiving email, but have not widely implemented them as production services. As a result, many organizations are simply storing format specific email archives as unprocessed holdings. For this group, email to PDF offers a relatively straightforward migration pathway, with demonstrated downstream benefits.
The Standards Support Endowment allows the PDF Association to increase support for standards development, including a new PDF subset specification targeting repurposing of PDF content.
The Hall of Fame is a permanent tribute on to the generous contributions of our events’ top-tier sponsors. These companies make PDF Days and similar events possible.
When people talk to me about PDF technology they are generally pretty happy about it. End users feel that they can really understand PDF; it works exactly as you’d expect digital paper to work; simple, reliable and effective. And it’s SO popular!
“I’m sorry, Derek, but, now that Kelsey has learned how to convert JPEGs into PDFs, we can’t justify keeping you on.”
Microform has completed a flagship project with the help of the PDF Compressor from Foxit Software: the website for the British Online Archive (BOA). BOA is home to nearly 4 million data sets from private and public archives which librarians, professors, students and researchers of the humanities and can use to lean about over 1,000 … Read more
Microform hat mithilfe des PDF Compressors von Foxit Software ein Leuchtturmprojekt umgesetzt: die Website des British Online Archives (BOA). Diese beherbergt mehr als vier Millionen Datensätze aus privaten und öffentlichen Archiven, anhand derer sich Bibliothekare, Professoren, Studenten und Forscher aus dem Bereich der Geisteswissenschaften über 1.000 Jahre Weltgeschichte informieren können. Viele Dokumente davon hat Microform … Read more
