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Sorry if I'm asking novice questions (but that's what I am), are you most interested in saving the content or the formatting or both? If the content is the most important thing to preserve, then why not just save the file as PDF and archive that as the master so you have a copy with all formatting intact, but then save a txt for an editable version that maintains content (assuming you need to edit in the future)? I'm wary of archiving *.DOC/X files because they may not be readable for the long-term. On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:49 AM, Brian Kelly <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I've always deposited an MS Word copy of my papers in my local > repository, together with a PDF copy. I've done this because I've been > told of the importance of preserving the master copy of a resource, rather > than a lossy derivative version, such as PDF. As I've experience in having > to recreate an MS Word file from a PDF copy I know this can be a cumbersome > process. I assume some authors may prefer to deposit a PDF copy as this may > be regarded as providing a form of DRM by making it slightly more difficult > to process the file. > > What policies and practices do people have in place related to this? A > Google search for "Policies on depositing MS Word files" suggests that PDFs > are the norm. Since the MS Office format has been an ISO standard since > 2007 I assume the proprietary versus open standard format for deposits > argument is not as strong as it was (subject to caveats about support for ISO/IEC > 29500 Strict > and the arguments about the validity of the standardisation process which > I don't want to go into). > > Thanks > > Brian > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------- > Brian Kelly > Innovation Support Centre, UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, UK, BA2 7AY > Phone: 01225 383943 > Email: [log in to unmask] > Blog: http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/ > Twitter: http://twitter.com/briankelly > Web: http://isc.ukoln.ac.uk/ > > -- Christopher Eaker, P.E. Graduate Research Assistant Data Curation Education in Research Centers University of Tennessee, Knoxville