OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

  • 1.  How about an interoperability Subcommittee?

    Posted 05-06-2007 20:44 

    At the OASIS Symposium, and on the ODF
Adoption TC calls, there has been a good amount of talk about ODF &
interoperability.  This topic arises in a variety of forms:

    1) Interoperability among ODF implementations,
both traditional client-based editors (OpenOffice.org, KOffice, etc.) as
well as with nontraditional editors, e.g., Google Docs & Spreadsheets
    2) Interoperability between ODF and
other embedded markups, like MathML, XForms, etc.
    3) Interoperability between ODF and
other high-level document formats, like DocBook, DITA or UOML.
    4) Best practices for interoperability
between ODF and embeddable microformats like vCard or Creative Commons
licensing.
    5) Interoperability between ODF and
legacy document formats from Microsoft, Corel, Lotus, etc.

    It seems to me that these topics may
be "next big thing" after the ODF 1.2 work is done.

    Is there any interest among TC members
in pursuing some of these topics in more depth in a subcommittee?

    Possible deliverables of the subcommittee
might be a technical report on best practices for interoperability, as
well as specific recommendations for accomplishing these goals.  

    If there is any interest in this, I
suggest we discuss on the list and develop a charter and list of deliverables.


    -Rob
    ___________________________

    
Rob Weir
    
Software Architect
    
Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software
    
IBM Software Group

    
email: robert_weir@us.ibm.com
    
phone: 1-978-399-7122
    
blog: http://www.robweir.com/blog/



  • 2.  RE: [office] How about an interoperability Subcommittee?

    Posted 05-06-2007 23:48 
    






    Interoperability is the most important thing for ODF nowadays. 
It should be the "next big thing".
    

    The only 
problem is: this SC should be within ODF TC, or ODF Adoption 
TC?
    

     
    

    -Alex
    

     
    

    


    
                                                
    
					
                                                    

        
                                                
				
    
                                                
    
                                                    
                                                        
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    At the 
  OASIS Symposium, and on the ODF Adoption TC calls, there has been a good 
  amount of talk about ODF & interoperability.  This topic arises in a 
  variety of forms:

    1) 
  Interoperability among ODF implementations, both traditional client-based 
  editors (OpenOffice.org, KOffice, etc.) as well as with nontraditional 
  editors, e.g., Google Docs & Spreadsheets
    2) Interoperability between ODF and other embedded markups, like 
  MathML, XForms, etc.
    3) 
  Interoperability between ODF and other high-level document formats, like 
  DocBook, DITA or UOML.
    4) Best 
  practices for interoperability between ODF and embeddable microformats like 
  vCard or Creative Commons licensing.
    5) Interoperability between ODF and legacy document formats from 
  Microsoft, Corel, Lotus, etc.

    It 
  seems to me that these topics may be "next big thing" after the ODF 1.2 work 
  is done.

    Is there any interest 
  among TC members in pursuing some of these topics in more depth in a 
  subcommittee?

    Possible 
  deliverables of the subcommittee might be a technical report on best practices 
  for interoperability, as well as specific recommendations for accomplishing 
  these goals.  

    If there is 
  any interest in this, I suggest we discuss on the list and develop a charter 
  and list of deliverables. 

    -Rob
    ___________________________

    Rob Weir
    Software 
  Architect
    Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software
    IBM Software 
  Group

    email: robert_weir@us.ibm.com
    phone: 1-978-399-7122
    blog: 
  http://www.robweir.com/blog/


  • 3.  RE: [office] How about an interoperability Subcommittee?

    Posted 05-07-2007 03:27 

    Hi Alex,

    I'm on the ODF Adoption TC as well.
 The various interoperability topics have come up for discussion,
but not action taken on them.  Based on the discussion I've had with
that committee, the consensus was that this work would require the technical
expertise of the ODF TC.    But it is fair to say that there
would likely be some level of collaboration with the Adoption TC as well.

    Regards,

    -Rob

    ___________________________

    
Rob Weir
    
Software Architect
    
Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software
    
IBM Software Group

    
email: robert_weir@us.ibm.com
    
phone: 1-978-399-7122
    
blog: http://www.robweir.com/blog/

    "ALex Wang" <alexwang@sursen.com>
wrote on 05/06/2007 07:48:13 PM:

    
> Interoperability is the most important thing for ODF nowadays. It
    
> should be the "next big thing".
    > The only problem is: this SC should be within
ODF TC, or ODF Adoption TC?
    >  
    > -Alex
    >  
    > 
    
                                                
    
					
                                                    

        
                                                
				
    
                                                
    
                                                    
                                                        
                                                        Original Message
                                                
    
                                                
    >
    
> At the OASIS Symposium, and on the ODF Adoption TC calls, there has
    
> been a good amount of talk about ODF & interoperability.  This
topic
    
> arises in a variety of forms:
    
>
    
> 1) Interoperability among ODF implementations, both traditional
    
> client-based editors (OpenOffice.org, KOffice, etc.) as well as with
    
> nontraditional editors, e.g., Google Docs & Spreadsheets
    
> 2) Interoperability between ODF and other embedded markups, like
    
> MathML, XForms, etc.
    
> 3) Interoperability between ODF and other high-level document
    
> formats, like DocBook, DITA or UOML.
    
> 4) Best practices for interoperability between ODF and embeddable
    
> microformats like vCard or Creative Commons licensing.
    
> 5) Interoperability between ODF and legacy document formats from
    
> Microsoft, Corel, Lotus, etc.
    
>
    
> It seems to me that these topics may be "next big thing"
after the
    
> ODF 1.2 work is done.
    
>
    
> Is there any interest among TC members in pursuing some of these
    
> topics in more depth in a subcommittee?
    
>
    
> Possible deliverables of the subcommittee might be a technical
    
> report on best practices for interoperability, as well as specific
    
> recommendations for accomplishing these goals.  
    
>
    
> If there is any interest in this, I suggest we discuss on the list
    
> and develop a charter and list of deliverables.
    
>
    
> -Rob
    
> ___________________________
    
>
    
> Rob Weir
    
> Software Architect
    
> Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software
    
> IBM Software Group
    
>
    
> email: robert_weir@us.ibm.com
    
> phone: 1-978-399-7122
    
> blog: http://www.robweir.com/blog/


  • 4.  Re: [office] How about an interoperability Subcommittee?

    Posted 05-07-2007 06:49 
    On Sunday 06 May 2007 22:44:06 robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
> At the OASIS Symposium, and on the ODF Adoption TC calls, there has
> been a good amount of talk about ODF & interoperability.  This topic
> arises in a variety of forms:
>
> 1) Interoperability among ODF implementations, both traditional
> client-based editors (OpenOffice.org, KOffice, etc.) as well as with
> nontraditional editors, e.g., Google Docs & Spreadsheets
[]
> It seems to me that these topics may be "next big thing" after the ODF
> 1.2 work is done.
>
> Is there any interest among TC members in pursuing some of these topics
> in more depth in a subcommittee?

As I put quite some work into the ODF-testsuite[1] I do think that the 
above point is very valid and important to look into.  Expanding the 
testsuite to be more useful for odf-implementors would be great!

Unfortunately I am seriously strapped for time, and already backlogged on 
the mailinglist for the testsuite quite a bit.  I would happily help 
people build on top of my work, though.

1) http://testsuite.opendocumentfellowship.org
-- 
Thomas Zander


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