Hi Tim

On 27/07/2012 10:42, Tim Brody wrote:

Of course the most successful format, available on by far the most

platforms and most vendors, is HTML. As the Semantic Web/schema.org gain

traction the amount of information stored in HTML will dwarf that in

dead-tree formats like Word and PDF (if it doesn't already).

Not only that, but e-book formats are essentially HTML too, EPub
particularly. I'm optimistic that, as tablets and e-book readers
continue to gain traction, it will be successful, flexible and hopefully
semantically rich rendering on those devices, that will become the
benchmark for most publications, rather than pseudo-A4. Much like what
we've been striving for on the Web for 20 years, but this time as a real
substitute for print, not an adjunct.

Not that preserving *everything* someone might choose to package up in
an EPUB3 file is necessarily going to be a picnic, but at least we're in
familiar web archiving territory ;)

Best

Richard


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