But if you read this and said “Well, I could take a shot at it, might be worth a few hours”, then you’re EXACTLY what is needed. Think what giving a month every year will do for a problem like this. There’s plenty of others – but this is one that has vital meaning to the work I’ve done with Archive Team and to the hundreds of archivists and historians I’ve met over the past few years. If this problem is in some way handled, if an OED of formats is blown out, lives will change – projects thought undoable will be doable, and the flood of old information saved will be incalculable. - copystar