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IT Informatics Tutorial
Library Computing Talk: The CERN Conversion Server
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CERN
CERN
Description
The library has constantly increased the number of electronic fulltext documents, which can be retrieved from its web catalogue. For some type of documents, the electronic format has simply replaced the paper form, which is no longer distributed.
At the same time, the text editors used by authors have unfortunately not converged to create a single format. On the contrary, the CERN Document Server is now receiving source files in a wide range of different formats. If these documents were kept in their original format, not only most of the readers would not be able to look at them today but also in a few years from now, nobody would have the proper tool for reading them!
Facing this situation, the Library Support section in the AS-Document Handling group has gained expertise in file-format conversions and is now proposing a CERN-Wide Web-based conversion service, which is fully automated.
In this talk, we will discuss the importance of file-format conversion for long-term electronic archiving, we will introduce the Conversion Service and we will give an overview of the different formats involved. The architecture of the system, based on different servers for converting different files, will also be explained and we will finally outline the details of how the automation has been achieved.
Organiser(s): Organisers: M.Marquina and R.Ramos /IT-User Support
Organiser(s): Organisers: M.Marquina and R.Ramos /IT-User Support