{"id":3626,"date":"2007-09-24T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2007\/09\/go-xena\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:47:04","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:47:04","slug":"go-xena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2007\/09\/go-xena\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Xena!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you want to preserve that MSWord novel, those spreadsheets, those AppleWorks fieldnotes forever?<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naa.gov.au\/\">National Archives of Australia<\/a>  are ahead of you &#8211; they&#8217;ve  developed  free and open source software to help in the long term preservation of digital records. Xena!  (<b>X<\/b>ML <b>E<\/b>lectronic <b>N<\/b>ormalising for <b>A<\/b>rchives &#8211; <em>and I bet they thought hard to come up with the N<\/em>).<br \/>\nI saw a demo of Xena a couple of years ago, and was greatly impressed by the potential of streamlining the workflow in digital text archives &#8211;    by detecting the file formats of digital objects, and then converting them into open formats like XML for preservation.  Databases remain the nightmare of course.<br \/>\nAnyway, there&#8217;s a new release &#8211; and here are the details.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<em>From Michael Carden<br \/>\nSent: Monday, 24 September 2007 9:26 AM<br \/>\nTo: Digital Repositories Special Interest Group<br \/>\nSubject: [Drsig] National Archives of Australia releases Xena 4.0<\/em><br \/>\nOur Xena digital preservation software is a free and open source tool<br \/>\nfor digital preservation. Xena may be used as a desktop application or<br \/>\n(more commonly) via its application programming interface to perform its<br \/>\ntwo key tasks from within other digital preservation workflows. Xena is<br \/>\ndesigned to:<br \/>\n* Determine file formats<br \/>\n* Convert files into standards based, open formats for preservation<br \/>\nKey new features in the 4.0 release of Xena are:<br \/>\n* Export facility (un-Xenafy) is now available through the viewer<br \/>\ninterface<br \/>\n* Audio plugin is now included by default<br \/>\n* Image file metadata is now extracted from image headers<br \/>\n* Archive plugin (zip, bzip, gzip etc) is now included<br \/>\nPlease take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/xena.sourceforge.net\">new Xena website<\/a><br \/>\nand download your copy, then let us know what you think.<br \/>\n[<em>And for more on digital archives, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apsr.edu.au\/blog\/\">APSR blog<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you want to preserve that MSWord novel, those spreadsheets, those AppleWorks fieldnotes forever? The National Archives of Australia are ahead of you &#8211; they&#8217;ve developed free and open source software to help in the long term preservation of digital records. Xena! (XML Electronic Normalising for Archives &#8211; and I bet they thought hard to &#8230; <a title=\"Go Xena!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2007\/09\/go-xena\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Go Xena!\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archiving"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4319,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions\/4319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}