OpenForum Europe - EU Conclusions from Open Document Exchange Formats Workshop - 0 views
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here was strong consensus among Member State administrations on the necessity to use ODEF on "openness" being the basic criteria of ODEF and resulting requirements towards industry players / consequences for public administrations There is a general dissatisfaction with the perspective of having competing standards; One format for one purpose: Administrations should be able to standardize (internally) on a minimal set of formats; No incomplete implementations, no proprietary extensions; Products should support all relevant standards and standards used should be supported by multiple products; Conformance testing and document validation possibilities are needed -> in order to facilitate mapping / conversion; Handle the legacy / safeguard accessibility
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There must be something in the air. The end user inspired idea that applications should be able to exchange documents perfectly preserving the presentation (man percieved appearance as opposed to machine interpreted layout-rendering) is gaining a rabid momentum.
Yesterday it was the Intel ODF Test Suite results falling into the hands of Microsoft, who is now using the results to argue that OpenOffice doesn't fully support - implement ODF. The Intel ODF Test Suite is notable in that the test is near 100% about comparative "presentation" :: an object to object ocmparison of a KOffice document to an OpenOffice rendering of that document and vice versa.
Today we have the EU IDABC hosting a continent wide conference discussing the same issue :: the "exchange" of ODF documents. They've even gone so far as to coin a new term; ODEF - OpenDocument Exchange Format!
This morning i also recieved an invite to join a new OASIS discussion list, "The DocStandards Interoperability List". The issue? The converision and exchange of documents between different standards.
And then there is the cry for help from Sophie Gautier. This is an eMail that has worked it's way up to both the OASIS ODF Adoption TC and OASIS ODF Mainline TC discussion lists. The problem is that Microsoft is presenting the Intel ODF Test Results to EU govenrments. Sophie needs a response, and finds the truth hard to fathom.
Last week the legendary document processing expert Patrick Durusau jumped into the ODF "Lists" embroglio with his concern that the public has a different idea about document exchange - interoperability than the ODF TC. A very different idea. The public expects a visual preservation of the documents presentation qual