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Open Standards and Government Policy: Results of a Delphi Surveyhttp://www.cbs.dk/content/download/90233/1183857/file/OpenStandardsAdoptionCAISJune2008.pdf Vladislav V. Fomin, Mogens Kühn Pedersen, Henk J. de Vries: In an increasing number of countries governments consider to stimulate the role of open standards in public Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure development. The aim of this work is to identify important issues related to government policy with regard to open standards and the development of public ICT infrastructure. This multi-method research presents results from an exploratory literature review and multi-round Delphi survey of key experts in the field of standardization. (PDF)- Open Standards - eGovernment - |
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Adobe to Release PDF for Industry Standardizationhttp://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200701/012907OpenPDFAIIM.html Adobe Press release, Jan. 29, 2007: Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced that it intends to release the full Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, for the purpose of publication by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).- Document Formats - Open Standards - |
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Throwing stones at people in glass houseshttp://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/07/throwing-stones-at-people-in-glass.html I work in a house with glass walls. Not literally, of course. The cost to air-condition such a house would be prohibitive. I mean that working on standard in OASIS is a public action, with process transparency and public visibility. The public doesn't see merely the end-product, or quarterly drafts, they can see (if they are so inclined) every discussion, every disagreement and every decision made by the TC, in near real-time. Our meeting minutes for our TC calls are posted for public inspection. Our mailing list archives, where most of the real work occurs, is there for the public to view. The comments submitted by the public are also available for anyone to read. This information is all archived from when the TC first met back in 2002, all the way to the discussions we're having today on spreadsheet formula namespaces.- OpenDocument - Open Standards - |
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DoD report recommends move to open software and standardshttp://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=89668DCF-D287-48E3-93F0-A0AB7DED24F7 The use of open source and open standards at the US Department of Defense is in the national interest and the interest of national security, according to a report from the DoD's Advanced Systems and Concepts office.- Open Source - Open Standards - |
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Microsoft Shrewdly Funds Open XML Translator Projecthttp://gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=141973 Gartner: Microsoft's strategy for attaining interoperability is shrewd. By using third parties to do the work and opening the project to the open-source community, Microsoft will minimize potential criticism from those who claim that Microsoft aims to undermine the ODF standard. The "open and save to ODF" function will be integrated into Office 2007, but will be a separate menu item and so less seamless than the open and save functions for other file formats (which occur from the standard open and save dialogue boxes). Gartner believes that the project should add a 'compatibility checker' function for ODF documents to provide guidance regarding which functions will not translate. Gartner expects uncertainty regarding which document format will become the de facto standard to continue through at least 2008. Through 2009, the majority of documents will still be exchanged in Microsoft binary formats (0.7 probability).- Document Formats - OpenDocument - Open Standards - |
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The Microsoft/ODF Day After: Almost everyone gets it wronghttp://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=3300 David Berlind: The Microsoft/ODF Day After: Almost everyone gets it wrong.- Document Formats - OpenDocument - Open Standards - |
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Mass. holding tight to OpenDocumenthttp://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6090196.html Massachusetts is sticking to its plan to adopt OpenDocument, despite a critical report calling for a delay to the high-profile move, the state's technology chief said.- OpenDocument - Open Standards - |
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Denmark ministries to publish in ODF by Septemberhttp://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1532219476;fp;16;fpid;0 The Danish government will launch a four-month pilot program in September that will involve publishing documents in the OpenDocument Format (ODF), part of the country's broad endorsement of using open computing standards. The program will start with Denmark's finance and science ministries and possibly others, said Adam Lebech, head of the IT governance division within the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.- Document Formats - OpenDocument - Open Standards - B103 - |
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Belgium gov't moves toward OpenDocument formathttp://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9001406 "In another blow to the supremacy of Microsoft's Office franchise, Belgium on Friday became the second governmental body to approve the use of the OpenDocument format as a way to exchange government documents. By September 2007, all Belgian federal agencies must use software that can read reports, spreadsheets, presentations and other types of data files saved in OpenDocument (ODF), a free XML file format certified as a standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) last month."- eGovernment - Document Formats - OpenDocument - Open Standards - |
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Is ODF Headed for a Bill Buckner Moment?http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=19243 "Last fall, it looked like Microsoft was indeed going down in the Bay State. Today, have a few drinks with an open source geek and he’ll tell you, perhaps not in so many words, that Microsoft’s response to the Massachusetts directive was a clumsy swing resulting in a slow grounder to the right side of the infield--but the ODF team has Bill Buckner at first base."- Document Formats - OpenDocument - Open Standards - |
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Belgian government chooses OpenDocumenthttp://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39276978,00.htm In a blow to Microsoft, Belgium's government departments will be instructed to use an open file format for internal communications- eGovernment - Document Formats - OpenDocument - Open Standards - |
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Open to the publichttp://comment.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020505,39276991,00.htm We paid for it. We want it. Keeping public data open is the only acceptable standard for government IT.- Standards - eGovernment - Open Standards - |
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OpenDoc Gains Ground in Belgium, Indiahttp://www.betanews.com/article/OpenDoc_Gains_Ground_in_Belgium_India/1151086332 OpenDocument made additional strides in establishing itself this week, as the Belgian government certified the OASIS format as the only acceptable standard for internal documents. In addition, OpenDoc backers are promoting the format in India at the IIT Delhi conference.- eGovernment - Document Formats - OpenDocument - Open Standards - |
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CityGML: An Open Standard for 3D City Modelshttp://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2209&trv=1 CityGML is a common information model for representing 3D urban objects. It defines classes and relations for the most relevant topographic objects in cities and regional models with respect to their geometric, topological, semantic and appearance properties. "City" is broadly defined to include not just built structures, but also elevation, vegetation, water bodies, “sidewalk furniture” and more. Included are generalization hierarchies between thematic classes, aggregations, relationships between objects and spatial properties.- Open Standards - |
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On the subject of double standardsSøren Thing Pedersen about standards and double standards- Standards - Document Formats - Open Standards - B103 - |
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DK: Denmark taking the lead in governments IT policyhttp://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/5646/194 IDABC (EU) translation of B103.- Open Standards - B103 - |
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Danemark : le parlement vote pour les standards ouverts !http://formats-ouverts.org/blog/2006/06/03/829-danemark-le-parlement-vote-pour-les-standards-ouverts Formats Ouverts, June 3, 2006. La parlement danois a voté pour l'utilisation obligatoire des standards ouverts.- Open Standards - B103 - |
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Denmark is Important Because...http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2006/06/denmark_is_impo.html Sam Hiser, June 05, 2006. The Danish Parlimentary Resolution (June 2, 2006) in favor of open software standards, while it doesn't call out ODF by name, is critical to the accelerated worldwide adoption of the OpenDocument Format because it will reinforce the definition of what is agreed to be an open software standard and reinforce just what the requirements of openness are.- Document Formats - OpenDocument - Open Standards - B103 - |
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Denmark mandates open standards by 2008Søren Thing Pedersen, June 2, 2006. In dramatic fashion the Danish parliament unanimously agreed on making the use of open standards mandatory in national IT solutions and software by 2008 (or ASAP). The decision was made minutes before the parliament left for the summer break and after weeks of intense discussion. Søren provides video/audio from the Parliament session.- Open Standards - B103 - |
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Denmark moves forward with open standardshttp://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2006/06/denmark_mandate.html Open Malaysia, June 4, 2006. I think the Danish people ought to feel better now, after the hard knocks the nation attracted to herself a few months ago. No, I don't mean they should feel better because they defeated Malaysia at the Thomas Cup badminton semi-finals a few weeks ago, but I think they should be proud of their leadership in open standards, displayed just a few days ago.- Open Standards - B103 - |
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Denmark's Resolution on Open Standards - Updatedhttp://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060602210610876 GROKLAW June 03 2006. Groklaw member elhaard sends us a bit more detail about the Danish resolution that passed yesterday. We put the story in News Picks. The motion is called "B 103" and all material about it (even Parliament transcripts) can be found at the Parliament's home page. It's only in Danish, though. So he helps us out again, translating the last publicly shown version of the resolution.- Open Standards - B103 - |
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Looking for IT Leaders? Try Denmarkhttp://jakaplan.blogspot.com/2006/06/looking-for-it-leaders-try-denmark.html Jeff Kaplan, 1 June, 2006. There is big news about to break on the IT policy front, and it comes from Denmark.- Open Standards - B103 - |
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Is ODF an Open Standard?http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060209093903413 By David A. Wheeler. GROKLAW, February 09 2006- Standards - Document Formats - OpenDocument - Open Standards - |
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An Economic Basis for Open Standardshttp://flosspols.org/deliverables/FLOSSPOLS-D04-openstandards-v6.pdf FLOSSPOLS Open Standards and Interoperability Report by Rishab Ghosh. December 2005.- Standards - Interoperability - Open Standards - |
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John Palfrey: Open Standards in Massachusettshttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2005/12/14 Summary of RemarksDecember 14, 2005- Standards - Document Formats - OpenDocument - Open Standards - |
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