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Main article: OpenDocument The OpenDocument format (ODF), short for the OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications, is an open document file format for saving and exchanging office documents such as memos, reports, books, spreadsheets, databases, charts, and presentations. ...
Process Version 1.0 of the OpenDocument specification was developed after lengthy development and discussion by multiple organizations. The first official OASIS meeting to discuss the standard was December 16, 2002; OASIS approved OpenDocument as an OASIS standard on May 1, 2005. The group decided to build on an earlier version of the OpenOffice.org format, since this was already an XML format with most of the desired properties, and had been in use since 2000 as the program's primary storage format (demonstrating its utility). Note, however, that OpenDocument is not the same as the older OpenOffice.org format; many changes and lessons learned were incorporated based on the feedback from many different individuals and companies. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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According to Gary Edwards, a member of the OpenDocument TC, the specification was developed in two phases. Phase one (which lasted from November of 2002 through March of 2004), had the goal of ensuring that the OpenDocument format could capture all the data from a vast array of older legacy systems. Edwards expressed this goal as perfecting "the Open Document XML as a transformation layer" (a universal intermediate format) where "interoperability with legacy information systems was our primary concern." This considered "at least 30 years of legacy information systems that cross an incredible spectrum of information and file format types," including various versions of Microsoft Office and many other products and formats as well. Phase Two focused on Open Internet based collaboration. (Einfeldt, 2005).
Participants The standardization process included the developers of many office suites or related document systems, including (in alphabetical order): Notably absent from the group of active participants was Microsoft, especially since Microsoft is a member of OASIS and is the dominant vendor of office suite software. Renewal of the surface coating of an adobe wall in Chamisal, New Mexico Adobe is a building material composed of water, sandy clay and straw or other organic materials, which is shaped into bricks using wooden frames and dried in the sun . ...
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The OpenDocument standardization process also included many document users, especially those with the need to handle complex documents or to be able to retrieve documents for long periods of time after their development. Document-using organizations who initiated or were involved in the standardization process included (alphabetically):
As well as having many formal members, draft versions of the specification were released to the public and subject to worldwide review. Many others, who were not formal members of the standardization committee, submitted comments to the committee. These external comments were then adjudicated publicly by the committee. The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA, TYO: 7661 ) is the world’s largest aircraft manufacturer. ...
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Next Steps OASIS has submitted the OpenDocument standard to a joint technical committee of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) for approval as an international ISO/IEC standard. ISO spokesman Roger Frost stated that the committee will send the specification out to its members, probably at the end of this month, and they will have five months to study and vote on it (Sayer, 2005). Many expect that OpenDocument's broad support and demonstrated open development process will result in quick passage of OpenDocument as an ISO/IEC standard. OASIS is one of the few organizations which has been granted the right to propose standards directly to ISO as a proposed "publicly available specification" (PAS). This process is specifically designed to fast-track public specifications into becoming ISO standards when they have already been developed in an open manner. OpenDocument advocates note that, in contrast, there is no evidence that the competing Microsoft XML formats or the older DOC/PPT/XLS formats will go through an independent standardization process to be standardized. The older DOC/PPT/XLS formats are not even publicly specified, which is one reason why documents written in these formats sometimes cannot be read by later versions of the same office suite. ISO has many meanings: Iso is the stem of the Latin transliteration of the Greek word ίσος (Ãsos, meaning equal). The iso- prefix in English derives from this and means equality or similarity. ...
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Gary Edwards, a member of the OpenDocument TC, says that after ISO standardization, "there is no doubt in my mind that OpenDocument is heading to the W3C for ratification as the successor to HTML and XHTML." (Einfeldt, 2005). The W3C has not made any public statements supporting or denying this statement, however. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a consortium that produces standards—recommendations, as they call them—for the World Wide Web. ...
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