Hi Michael,
This looks very interesting, particularly in that you have an API rather
than just a desktop application.
May I ask a couple of questions ?
1) Is the output standard XML (I wondered why a .xena extension) ?
2) Do you have a rationale for using XML rather than PDF/A ?
Thanks,
Steve
http://www.alliancegroup.co.uk
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Subject: National Archives of Australia releases Xena 4.0
Our Xena digital preservation software is a free and open source tool
for digital preservation. Xena may be used as a desktop application or
(more commonly) via its application programming interface to perform its
two key tasks from within other digital preservation workflows. Xena is
designed to:
* Determine file formats
* Convert files into standards based, open formats for preservation
Key new features in the 4.0 release of Xena are:
* Export facility (un-Xenafy) is now available through the viewer
interface
* Audio plugin is now included by default
* Image file metadata is now extracted from image headers
* Archive plugin (zip, bzip, gzip etc) is now included
Please take a look at the new Xena website http://xena.sourceforge.net
and download your copy, then let us know what you think.
Thanks,
Michael Carden
Technical Manager
Digital Preservation
National Archives of Australia
61 2 6212 6223
http://naa.gov.au
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