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Open Standards and Government Policy: Results of a Delphi Survey

http://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)
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Adobe to Release PDF for Industry Standardization

http://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).
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Throwing stones at people in glass houses

http://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.
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DoD report recommends move to open software and standards

http://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.
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Microsoft Shrewdly Funds Open XML Translator Project

http://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).
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The Microsoft/ODF Day After: Almost everyone gets it wrong

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=3300

David Berlind: The Microsoft/ODF Day After: Almost everyone gets it wrong.
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Mass. holding tight to OpenDocument

http://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.
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Delay Sought In Mass. Office Software Implementation

http://www.techweb.com/wire/software/189800174;jsessionid=B3E50WOJGAYSWQSNDLPSKHSCJUNN2JVN

The battle over the introduction of the Open Document Format (ODF) office software to the exclusion of Microsoft Office software in Massachusetts state government appears far from over as a state senator urged Thursday that the scheduled implementation of ODF be delayed. State Senator Marc Pacheco, a longtime critic of the state's decision to adopt ODF issued a 31-page report condemning the decision by the state's Information Technology Division (ITD) to move to ODF. The Pacheco report was immediately hailed by trade association CompTIA. "Senator Pacheco's report confirms what we have known all along -- that the process at ITD was badly flawed," said Michael Wendy, CompTIA spokesman, in an e-mail.
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Europe warms to OpenDocument format

http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=D275D260-7E67-46BB-B84E-1D573AC5898E

OpenDocument Format initiatives in Belgium, France, and Denmark indicate growing support for the for office productivity application format standard, according to the ODF Alliance.
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Denmark ministries to publish in ODF by September

http://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.
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Belgium gov't moves toward OpenDocument format

http://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."
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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."
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Promoting Open Standards, best answer against Monopoly

http://www.zdnet.co.kr/etc/eyeon/enterprise/0,39036961,39148284,00.htm

First ever visit to Korea as a keynote speaker for 'LinuxWorld Korea 2006' event, executive director of FSG (Free Standards Group www.freestandards.org), Jim Zemlin said "Promoting open source standards is a key battle plan against monopolizing of operating system (OS) by market giant Micosoft" from his speech.
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Belgian government chooses OpenDocument

http://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
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Open to the public

http://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.
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OpenDoc Gains Ground in Belgium, India

http://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.
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CityGML: An Open Standard for 3D City Models

http://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.
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On the subject of double standards

http://things.dk/?p=6

Søren Thing Pedersen about standards and double standards
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DK: Denmark taking the lead in governments IT policy

http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/5646/194

IDABC (EU) translation of B103.
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Dinamarca exige estándares abiertos

http://mucha-calma.blogspot.com/2006/06/dinamarca-exige-estndares-abiertos.html

Ante Todo Mucha Calma, June 6, 2006. El pasado viernes 2 de junio del 2006, el Parlamento de Dinamarca aprobó por unanimidad la resolución B103 por la que ordena a su Gobierno que, a partir del 1 de enero del 2008, o incluso antes, haga obligatorio el uso de estándares abiertos en informática en la administración pública danesa.
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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.
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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.
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Denmark mandates open standards by 2008

http://things.dk/?p=3

Søren 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.
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Denmark moves forward with open standards

http://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.
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Denmark's Resolution on Open Standards - Updated

http://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.
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