More links on Office conversions:
Not as up-2-date as I would like, but do contain calibration test files useful in comparing conversion compatability between office software.
Okay so you'd recommend .txt or .xml over .rtf -- good to know.
You weren't kidding about 7zip. That format has amazing compression capacity, which I discovered while researching the Wikileaks cable archives. (300 Mb 7zip = 16 Gb!)
TXT is as low as you can go in hopes of retrieval of text (albeit complicated by character encoding). XML is human/machine readable with the chance to be transformed to other formats (assuming known schema). RTF is just legacy retrieval but not much toward "futureproof" since RTF is a proprietary format (as far a I know).
7zip (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Zip) is an odd project that has a group following to counter other archivers.
I remember the PKWARE company well and was surprised when they open sourced ZIP (happily).
For PC users there is also http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/7-zip_portable
7zip was not included in the Windows and MAC OS's. Therefore ZIP got the traction, while 7-zip became a geek app.
I lost the link on a technical discussion of digital leakage from compression/decompression that may become relevant to archiving.
C'est la vie!
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