OASIS Approves OpenDocument Standard

OASIS has finally voted and approved the last draft of the OpenDocument 1.0 specification as an open standard. This is a document file format for saving office documents such as spreadsheets, memos, charts, and presentations. This format is based on the XML-based file format developed by OpenOffice.org, and has already been adopted by OOo 2 and KOffice.

Its importance cannot be understated, as it will help to bring compatibility (and hence competition) back to office applications. So far, the de facto standard was the last version of MS Office, and many people and organizations became locked in to this single software vendor. With OASIS OpenDocument the user gets the rights to his own documents back.

Hopefully, public institutions as the European Union will now deprecate doc, xls, ppt, etc and embrace the new odt, ods, odp, etc formats, which will probably become ISO standards as well.

A continuación, la noticia en castellano.

El mes de mayo ha comenzado con una importante noticia: la aprobación mediante votación del último borrador de la especificación OpenDocument 1.0 como un estándar OASIS. Se trata de un formato de fichero realmente abierto para documentos ofimáticos (hojas de cálculo, presentaciones, textos, etc), cuya importancia no se debe minusvalorar. El formato estándar OpenDocument de OASIS facilitará el intercambio de documentos, y por tanto la compatibilidad, interoperabilidad y competición entre programas.

Hasta ahora el estándar de facto era la última versión de MS Word, pese a no estar documentado y a que con frecuencia no era compatible con otras versiones de sí mismo, lo cual traía muchos problemas, como quedarte atrapado en los productos de un fabricante so pena de no poder acceder a tus propios datos. Con el OpenDocument de OASIS los usuarios recuperan sus derechos sobre sus propios documentos.

Este formato deriva del formato basado en XML de OpenOffice.org, y ya ha sido adoptado por OOo 2 y KOffice (esperemos que también lo sea por Abiword, Gnumeric y otras aplicaciones).

Las instituciones públicas como la Unión Europea deberían ahora olvidarse ahora de formatos propietarios como doc, xls, ppt, etc y adoptar en su lugar los nuevos formatos odt, ods, odp, etc, que probablemente también serán aprobados como estándar ISO.

50 Responses to “OASIS Approves OpenDocument Standard”

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    Por suerte algunos estudiamos Latin en la escuela…

    Si ánimo de ofender ;-) En cuanto a la noticia me alegra un montón. Ya iba haciendo falta…

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