New Standard Address Long-Term Preservation of E-Documents

"The publication of PDF/A will have a significant impact on the preservation of electronic documents by defining an internationally recognized standard format that is amenable to long-term preservation," said Stephen Abrams, Digital Library program manager at the Harvard University Library. "The standard will allow libraries, archives, and other electronic resource consumers to encourage their content providers to produce and deliver those resources in a form that is optimized for their effective preservation over time."