[00:02] <joepie91> why hello there ArloJames
[00:03] <joepie91> well, this is a pretty low-traffic channel, only really used for "what's the password" and "hey, X is going down", longer discussion is usually moved to #archiveteam-bs, as is off-topic chatter
[00:11] <ArloJames> joepie91 - I figured, but before I would have assumed that the main channel would be the casual, higher-throughput channel, and then there would be a dedicated #archiveteam-login or #archiveteam-announcements side channel. It matters not, though.
[03:22] <ArloJames> Night
[04:19] <marc> yo
[04:20] <marc> what'sa  good doc format- better than .doc?
[04:20] <marc> pdf?
[04:20] <marc> (for sf bay guardian newspaper articles frm past 2 0 years- some guy wrote a macro to upgrade everything frm wordstar/word6-> word 2003
[04:21] <trs80> ODF?
[04:21] <marc> hrm not sure word exports to that
[04:21] <marc> can prolly convert pdf to odf tho
[04:21] <marc> ODT tho
[04:22] <marc> interesting i'll look into it thx
[04:22] <marc> looks like someone made exporter for word2003
[05:22] <db48x> pdf is a pretty good choice
[05:22] <db48x> a conversion from doc to pdf to odf probably won't have a lot of fidelity though
[05:23] <db48x> pdf is great at capturing the visual layout of a document, but it loses a lot of semantic information
[05:25] <db48x> even things like the reading order of lines of text are missing from pdf (pdf will have the coordinates and size, instead)
[05:28] <db48x> whatever conversions you decide on, the best thing to do is keep the originals as well
[05:29] <db48x> we can emulate the old software to read them, or redo the conversions as the tools improve
[06:09] <DFJustin> ^ this
[08:59] <midas> or LaTeX
[09:47] <db48x> LaTeX isn't future-proof. TeX would be
[09:49] <db48x> and conversions to LaTeX/TeX are annoying
[15:28] <joepie91> marc: please make sure a copy of it exists in an open format at least
[15:29] <joepie91> no point in having a copy if you can't read it and the information needed to do so is missing
[15:29] <joepie91> :)
[18:21] <Jonimus> have any of the FTP archiving projects gotten ftp://ftp.ti.com/ ?
[18:26] <aaaaaaaaa> according to the list here: http://dat.serveert.me.uk/p/ftp it looks like no one has gotten it yet
[23:01] <SketchCow> Hi, archive team
[23:01] <SketchCow> My little gift. Don't tweet.
[23:02] <SketchCow> http://archive.org/v2
[23:03] <Smiley> saw that yesterday. is nice.
[23:05] <Smiley> down to d's in the meta works
[23:57] <wp494> okay I guess tweet all you want
[23:57] <wp494> since IA themselves tweeted http://blog.archive.org/2014/10/28/building-libraries-together/
[23:57] <wp494> which mentions v2
[23:58] <Smiley> f's ahoy!!!
[23:59] <wp494> IA could make loads of $$$ if they sold tabletop scribes
[23:59] <Smiley> a wut?
[23:59] <wp494> even if it's just the scribe unit itself (as in "bring your own lights & camera")
[23:59] <Smiley> oh for books?