[LINK] As Go Document Formats, So Goes Video

[Alastair Rankine]

steve jenkin wrote:
>
> I've never understood why archival documents aren't stored in "Lowest
> Common Denominator" form.
> I.e. ASCII lines until XML+Dublin Core (or whatever equiv) is generally
>   
[snip]
> Presentation/layout would almost always be purely ornamental.
>
> This whole area is obviously driven by Bureaucratic Politics and agendas
> than technical or professional issues.
>   

I quite agree, if they can't use our character set in all its 7-bit 
glory, all those foreigners can just bloody well learn English anyway.

And yes, there is absolutely nothing of value in typography, graphic 
design, or the visual arts in general. It is all ornamental and can be 
easily discarded with no loss.

Your proposal quite nicely solves the problem raised in the linked 
article. Instead of archiving all that video footage, just save the 
screenplays as ASCII and throw the footage away.

I don't know why bureaucratic politics and agendas keep getting in the 
way of such simple solutions, either.

</sarcasm>