id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15501 Teper, Thomas H.; Kraemer, Beth Long-term Retention of Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2002-01-01 12 .pdf application/pdf 6981 301 46 Although this facilitates short- term access, it should raise serious ques- tions about the potential for long-term sustainability because, unlike scanning projects, there is not necessarily a hard copy to fall back on. This vague caution centered on the necessity of preserving electronic documents in a mul- titude of formats, including native formats such as Microsoft Word for contextual in- formation, raster format such as PDF or TIFF for access, the OCR output so that documents will be searchable, a structured format such as SGML or XML for preser- vation purposes, and an ASCII document to serve as a last-ditch method of recover- ing lost data. cache/crl-15501.pdf txt/crl-15501.txt