Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (150 mails)

[Giles Nunn <giles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 08:55, MJ Ray wrote:

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> 
> Finally, some resources are only available in proprietary software
> formats.  Where possible, it would be good to convert them to transparant
> formats and persuade resource sites to ask people to do that when
> uploading if possible.  I guess that everyone on this list can see the
> benefits of doing that?
> 

Definitely a good move.  Having all teaching resources available in
standard open formats would be a major step forward. What would the best
standard data format for the various common apps? Some are easy but
others might cause problems - what should we use for M$ Publisher, for
example. We could compile a list of data format alternatives, much like
the free software alternatives list mentioned recently.

eg

APP		Proprietary			Open

database	access, SQL, SIMS etc		csv
documents	word, amipro, wordperfect	XML?,pdf?
image		bmp, gif etc			png

What does eveyone think?

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