OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

Re: [office] How about an interoperability Subcommittee?

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

    Posted 05-07-2007 10:12
    Rob,
    
    the SC you suggest sounds like a very good idea to me, and also the idea 
    to make this the "next big thing" after the ODF 1.2 work is done.
    
    Best regards
    
    Michael
    
    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
    > 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/
    > 
    
    
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