Introduction to Open Standards and Open Source Software

I gave a presentation at the 2006 Florida Association of Museums Conference (FAM) in July. I gave the same talk at Denison University in October.

Summary:
Avoid vendor lock-in. Preserve your ability to access your own data into perpetuity. Adopt open standards.

The slides are posted on the web:

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/omt/presentations/open_standards/DenisonOct06-Open_Standards.odp (Open Document)
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/omt/presentations/open_standards/DenisonOct06-Open_Standards.ppt (Microsoft PowerPoint)
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/omt/presentations/open_standards/DenisonOct06-Open_Standards.pdf (PDF)