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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 -----Original Message----- From: The UK Records Management mailing list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of John Lovejoy Sent: 24 September 2007 00:14 To: [log in to unmask] 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