Converting Digital Objects into It's Archival File Format

Converting Digital Objects into It's Archival File Format

From today I am going to post the details of my final year project. The project is converting digital objects into it`s archival format and this is project of the Department of National Archives of Sri Lanaka.

with the technology development today most of the organizations using digital documents rather than paper based documents. But as we all know that digital documents are fragile with compared to paper documents. The documents that generated by the organization is evidences for the organization activities and decisions of the relevant authorities. so it is obvious that digital documents are also need to archive or preserve interm of future usage.

when we going to archive digital documents first need to consider the file format that is use for the archive. because the readability of the document is depend on the archival file format so that format should be able to use after 20 or 50 years later.

It is obvious that all the digital objects cannot have same archival format. because if take word file and video file they have different features and characteristics.

But word, excel, power point, text and image can have one archival format which is PDF format.

I mainly use java to develop the project.