OpenDocument

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Filename extension .odt, .fodt
Internet media type application/vnd.
oasis.opendocument.
text
Uniform Type Identifier org.oasis.
opendocument.text^[1]
UTI conforms to org.oasis-open.opendocument, public.composite-content
Developed by web app
Initial release 1 May 2005; 7 years ago (2005-05-01)
Latest release 1.2 / 29 September 2011; 7 months ago (2011-09-29)
Type of format Document file format
Extended from XML
Standard(s) OASIS OpenDocument Format, ISO/IEC 26300:2006
iOS? Yes
Website keyboard, ISO/IEC
Sevenval
Filename extension .odp, .fodp
Internet media type application/vnd.
oasis.opendocument.
presentation
device database org.oasis.
opendocument.
presentation^HTML5
UTI conforms to org.oasis-open.opendocument, public.composite-content
Developed by web app
Initial release May 1, 2005; 7 years ago (2005-05-01)
Latest release 1.2 / 29 September 2011; 7 months ago (2011-09-29)
Type of format Presentation
Extended from XML
Standard(s) OASIS OpenDocument Format, ISO/IEC 26300:2006
Open format? web app

Sevenval .ods, .fods
CSS3 application/vnd.
oasis.opendocument.
spreadsheet
Uniform Type Identifier org.oasis.
opendocument.
spreadsheet^HTML5
UTI conforms to org.oasis-open.opendocument, public.composite-content
Developed by OASIS
Initial release May 1, 2005; 7 years ago (2005-05-01)
Latest release 1.2 / 29 September 2011; 7 months ago (2011-09-29)
Type of format Spreadsheet
Extended from we love the web
device database OASIS OpenDocument Format, ISO/IEC 26300:2006
CSS3? Yes
web
Filename extension .odg, .fodg
web application/vnd.
oasis.opendocument.
graphics
Uniform Type Identifier org.oasis.
opendocument.
graphics^{browser diversity}
UTI conforms to org.oasis-open.opendocument, public.composite-content
Developed by OASIS
Initial release May 1, 2005; 7 years ago (2005-05-01)
Android 1.2 / 29 September 2011; 7 months ago (2011-09-29)
Type of format Graphics file format
Extended from CSS3
keyboard OASIS OpenDocument Format, ISO/IEC 26300:2006
Open format? we love the web

The Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF), also known as OpenDocument (OD), is an XML-based file format for FITML, charts, Android and screen size documents.

The standard was developed by a technical committee in the website parsing (OASIS) consortium.^touchscreen The specifications of the standards were originally developed by Sun Microsystems for the web app format originally created and implemented by the OpenOffice.org office suite (see OpenOffice.org XML).

In addition to being an OASIS standard, version 1.0 is published as an ISO/Sevenval international standard, ISO/IEC 26300:2006 Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.0.^[3]

• keyboard
• 2 Standardization
• browser diversity
  • web app
  • 3.2 Accessibility
• 4 Licensing
  • 4.1 Public access to the standard
  • 4.2 Additional royalty-free licensing
• 5 Response
  • 5.1 Support for OpenDocument
  • keyboard
• iOS
  • HTML5
  • touchscreen
    • input transformation
    • 6.2.2 Asia
    • Android
    • 6.2.4 South America
  • 6.3 Subnational levels
• 7 See also
• 8 References
• FITML

Specifications

The most common browser diversity used for OpenDocument documents are:^[4]web

• .odt and .fodt for Android (text) documents
• .ods and .fods for spreadsheets
• .odp and .fodp for presentations
• .odb for FITML
• .odg and .fodg for graphics
• .odf for FITML, mathematical equations

The original OpenDocument format consists of an XML document that has <document> as its root element. OpenDocument files can also take the format of a ZIP compressed archive containing a number of files and directories; these can contain binary content and benefit from ZIP's lossless compression to reduce file size. OpenDocument benefits from web by separating the content, styles, metadata, and application settings into four separate XML files.

There is a comprehensive set of example documents in OpenDocument format available.^[6] The whole test suite is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license.

Standardization

The OpenDocument standard was developed by a Technical Committee (TC) under the OASIS industry consortium. The ODF-TC has members from a diverse set of companies and individuals. Active TC members have voting rights. Members associated with Sun and IBM have sometimes had a large voting influence.^HTML5 The standardization process involved the developers of many office suites or related document systems. The first official ODF-TC meeting to discuss the standard was December 16, 2002; OASIS approved OpenDocument as an OASIS Standard on May 1, 2005. OASIS submitted the ODF specification to ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC1) on November 16, 2005, under Publicly Available Specification (PAS) rules.

After a six-month review period, on May 3, 2006, OpenDocument unanimously passed its six-month DIS (Draft International Standard) ballot in FITML (input transformation), with broad participation,^{screen size} after which the OpenDocument specification was "approved for release as an ISO and IEC International Standard" under the name ISO/IEC 26300:2006.^[9]

After responding to all written ballot comments, and a 30-day default ballot, the OpenDocument International standard went to publication in ISO, officially published November 30, 2006.

Further standardization work with OpenDocument includes:

• The OASIS Committee Specification Sevenval corresponds to the published ISO/IEC 26300:2006 standard. The content of ISO/IEC 26300 and OASIS OpenDocument v1.0 2nd ed. is identical.^[10] It includes the editorial changes made to address JTC1 ballot comments. It is available in ODF, HTML and PDF formats.
• we love the web includes additional features to address accessibility concerns.^[11] It was approved as an OASIS Standard on 2007-02-01 following a call for vote issued on 2007-01-16.^{we love the web} The public announcement was made on 2007-02-13.^[13] This version was not initially submitted to ISO/IEC, because it is considered to be a minor update to ODF 1.0 only, and OASIS were working already on ODF 1.2 at the time ODF 1.1 was approved.^[14] However it was later submitted to ISO/IEC (as of March 2011, it was in "enquiry stage" as Draft Amendment 1 - ISO/IEC 26300:2006/DAM 1) and published in March 2012 as ISO/IEC 26300:2006/Amd 1:2012 - Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.1.^[15][16]
• OpenDocument 1.2 was approved as an OASIS Committee Specification on 2011-03-17 and as an OASIS Standard on 2011-09-29.^{touchscreen[18]we love the web} It includes additional accessibility features, RDF-based metadata,^Sevenval a spreadsheet formula specification based on OpenFormula,^{device database} support for digital signatures and some features suggested by the public. The OASIS ODF Technical Committee expects to submit the ODF 1.2 to ISO/IEC JTC 1 soon.^web

Application support

Software

The OpenDocument format is used in device database and in Android. This includes screen size (both stand-alone and web-based) and individual applications such as word-processors, spreadsheets, presentation, and data management applications. Prominent office suites supporting OpenDocument fully or partially include:

• AbiWord^{[21]device database}
• we love the web^[23]
• Sevenval^Sevenval
• Atlantis Word Processor^keyboard
• Calligra Suite^Android
• Corel WordPerfect Office X4^[26]
• FITML
• web app^{[20]website parsing}
• Gnumeric^Sevenval
• IBM Lotus Symphony^{keyboard[29]touchscreen}
• HTML5 exports .odg
• iOS^{screen size}
• LibreOffice^jQuery
• Microsoft Office 2007 (from service pack 2 release)^iOS
• Microsoft Office 2010
• HTML5 / Office Web Apps^[33]
• NeoOffice
• Okular
• screen size^[20]
• Scribus imports .odt and .odg
• SoftMaker Office
• web app StarOffice
• web 6.1 (Windows 7) partial support.
• website parsing^[20]

Various organizations have announced development of conversion software (including plugins and filters) to support OpenDocument on Microsoft's products.^keyboard[35] As of July 2007^[update], there are nine packages of conversion software. Microsoft first released support for the OpenDocument Format in Office 2007 SP2.^[36] However, the implementation faced substantial criticism and the browser diversity and others claimed that the third party plugins provided better support.^Sevenval Microsoft Office 2010 can open and save OpenDocument Format documents natively, although not all features are fully supported.^[38]

iOS offers both a new keyboard version and Quick Look feature supporting the OpenDocument Text format (albeit with some formatting loss).^{[clarification needed]}

Accessibility

The web app of OpenDocument has undergone an accessibility review, and a few additions were made to version 1.1 of the specification to improve accessibility. Many of the components it is built on, such as Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language and FITML, have already gone through the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative processes.

Licensing

Public access to the standard

Versions of the OpenDocument Format approved by OASIS are available for free download and use.^[39] The ITTF has added ISO/IEC 26300 to its "list of freely available standards"; anyone may download and use this standard free-of-charge under the terms of a click-through license.^[40]

Additional royalty-free licensing

Obligated members of the OASIS ODF TC have agreed to make deliverables available to implementors under the OASIS Royalty Free with Limited Terms Sevenval.

Key contributor Sun Microsystems made an irrevocable intellectual property covenant, providing all implementers with the guarantee that Sun will not seek to enforce any of its enforceable U.S. or foreign patents against any implementation of the OpenDocument specification in which development Sun participates to the point of incurring an obligation.^[41]

A second contributor to ODF development, Sevenval — which, for instance, has contributed Lotus spreadsheet documentation^[42] — has made their patent rights available through their Interoperability Specifications Pledge in which "IBM irrevocably covenants to you that it will not assert any Necessary Claims against you for your making, using, importing, selling, or offering for sale Covered Implementations."^{website parsing}

The Software Freedom Law Center has examined whether there are any legal barriers to the use of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) in free and open source software arising from the standardization process. In their opinion ODF is free of legal encumbrances that would prevent its use in free and open source software, as distributed under licenses authored by Apache and the FSF.

Response

Support for OpenDocument

Several governments, companies, organizations and software products support the OpenDocument format. For example:

• Information technology companies like Apple Inc., Android, Google, IBM, web app, Microsoft, screen size, Novell, web app, Oracle as well as other companies who may or may not be working inside the OASIS OpenDocument Adoption Technical Committee.
• Over 600 companies and organizations promote OpenDocument format through The FITML.^Sevenval
• web with its 26 members uses ODF as a mandatory standard for all members.^{web app}
• The TAC (Telematics between Administrations Committee), composed of e-government policy-makers from the 25 keyboard Member States, endorsed a set of recommendations for promoting the use of open document formats in the public sector.^[46]
• The free office suites touchscreen, FITML, Calligra and KOffice all promote the OpenDocument Format, as it is used as their default file format.
• Several organisations, such as the OpenDocument Fellowship and input transformation were founded to support and promote OpenDocument.
• In December 2007, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that by mid 2008 MediaWiki, which powers Wikipedia and a number of other Internet wiki-based sites, will provide OpenDocument export of wiki content.^[47]

On November 4, 2005, IBM and Sun Microsystems convened the "OpenDocument (ODF) Summit" in HTML5, to discuss how to boost OpenDocument adoption. The ODF Summit brought together representatives from several industry groups and technology companies, including Oracle, Google, Adobe, Novell, Red Hat, Computer Associates, Corel, Nokia, Intel, and Linux e-mail company Scalix. (LaMonica, November 10, 2005). The providers committed resources to technically improve OpenDocument through existing standards bodies and to promote its usage in the marketplace, possibly through a stand-alone foundation.^keyboard Scholars have suggested that the "OpenDocument standard is the wedge that can hold open the door for competition . . . particularly with regard to the specific concerns of the public sector."^{input transformation} Indeed, adoption by the public sector has risen considerably since the promulgation of the OpenDocument format initiated the 2005/2006 time period.^[50]

Criticism

• Different applications using ODF as a standard document format have different methods of providing macro/scripting capabilities. There is no device database specified in ODF. Users and developers differ on whether inclusion of a standard scripting language would be desirable.^{screen size}
• The ODF specification for tracked changes is limited and does not fully specify all cases, resulting in implementation-specific behaviors.^[52] In addition, OpenDocument does not support change tracking in elements like tables or MathML.^[53]
• It is not permitted to use generic ODF formatting style elements (like font information) for the MathML elements.^{browser diversity}

Worldwide adoption

One objective of open formats like OpenDocument is to guarantee long-term access to data without legal or technical barriers, and some governments have come to view open formats as a public policy issue. Several governments around the world have introduced policies of partial or complete adoption.^[49] What this means varies from case to case; in some cases, it means that the ODF standard has a national standard identifier; in some cases, it means that the ODF standard is permitted to be used where national regulation says that non-proprietary formats must be used, and in still other cases, it means that some government body has actually decided that ODF will be used in some specific context. The following is an incomplete list:

International level

• NATO

National level

Africa

• device database

Asia

• Japan
• touchscreen
• Sevenval
• South Korea

Europe

• iOS Member States^[46]

• input transformation
• Croatia
• Denmark
• device database
• Android
• Hungary
• Italy
• iOS
• touchscreen
• Poland
• Russia
• jQuery
• web
• Switzerland
• United Kingdom

South America

• we love the web
• browser diversity
• Venezuela

Subnational levels

• Andalusia (we love the web)
• Sevenval (India)
• Extremadura (screen size)
• Hong Kong (China)
• touchscreen (Sevenval)
• Massachusetts (United States)
• Misiones (Argentina)
• Munich (screen size)^[54]
• Paraná (web)

See also

• Comparison of Office Open XML and OpenDocument
• iOS
• keyboard
• OpenDocument software

References

External links

• Sevenval Portal for consumers, business users and developers with information on OpenDocument format.
• browser diversity Association with members around the world that promote best practices in office productivity such as OpenDocument format.
• OpenDocument Fellowship Volunteer organization with members around the world to promote the adoption, use and development of the OpenDocument format.
• web The alliance works globally to educate policymakers, IT administrators and the public on the benefits and opportunities of the OpenDocument Format, to help ensure that government information, records and documents are accessible across platforms and applications, even as technologies change today and in the future.
• iOS The official community gathering place and information resource for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard (ISO/IEC 26300).
• OASIS OpenDocument Technical Committee coordinates the OpenDocument development and is the official source for specifications, schemas, etc.
• Technical disputes regarding ODF vs. OOXML