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Weekly Links #24

October 9, 2010

Sean McGrath: KLISS: Author/edit sub-systems in legislative environments “KLISS [Kansas Legislative Information Services System] makes extensive use of ODF for units of information in the asset repository. “ tags: ODF Here there be Dragons | IT PRO blogs “Meanwhile, in organisations not beholden to the great god of Seattle, they have gone for free software [...]

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Weekly Links #23

October 2, 2010

How to be a data journalist | News | guardian.co.uk tags: statistics New ISO standard for special math functions A good example of how ISO fails to encourage harmonized standards. These function definitions would be perfect for reusing in a variety of other standards, or at least for harmonizing with other standards that also define [...]

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Weekly Links #22

September 25, 2010

Jochen Friedrich’s Open Blog: European Parliament takes clear stance on openness in the context of completing the internal market “More specifically, the parliament clearly requires the use of an open standard in the area of document formats. As stated in clause 41 the parliament “Highlights the importance of an open document exchange format for electronic [...]

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Weekly Links #21

September 18, 2010

MATLAB Central – Newsreader – Does anyone else wish Matlab could handle Open … “I took this advice and utilized the ODFDOM library (part of the odftoolkit project) to implement an xlsread wrapper .m function that will read .ods files on a non-pc platform. The function imports and utilizes classes from the odfdom.jar library.” tags: [...]

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Weekly Links #20

September 11, 2010

ODF Alliance Weblog “Last week, OASIS held the ODF 1.2 Interoperability Demonstration to showcase support for ODF 1.2 and the interoperability across eight implementations. The Demo showcased both open source and commercial software applications processing ODF documents on the desktop, in the cloud and on mobile devices, including IBM Lotus Symphony, KOffice, OpenOffice.org Novell Edition, [...]

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Weekly Links #19

September 4, 2010

BE: Political party moving to a complete open source desktop “Ecolo, a green political party in Belgium, is planning to complete its move to a complete open source desktop system by the end of 2011. On the 220 workstations in its main office, it will gradually replace the underlying operating system to Ubuntu Linux, says [...]

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Weekly Links #18

August 28, 2010

IBM Lotus Symphony – Buzz: IBM Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 4 is now available “Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 4 represents a major new advancement for our Lotus Symphony users. Based on current OpenOffice.org 3 code stream. Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 4 offers loads of new features and capabilities and improved file fidelity. The Lotus Symphony [...]

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Weekly Links #17

August 21, 2010

Legislative Open Document Format (LODF) “History has shown over and over again that legislative data standards must be flexible in order to succeed. LODF (Legislative Open Document Format) is the first legislative data standard initiative that fully embraces that reality. LODF integrates legislative document semantics with the ODF XML standard (ISO/IEC 26300:2006). All LODF documents [...]

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Weekly Links #16

August 14, 2010

VML is baack… – Aspose.Words Product Family – Blogs “But the interesting thing that we came across is that ISO 29500 allows extensions and Microsoft did not waste any time by implementing something that is known as [MS-ODRAWXML]: Office Drawing Extensions to Office Open XML Structure Specification. This document basically puts VML back into ISO [...]

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Weekly Links #15

July 31, 2010

odf-report – GitHub “Gem for generating .odt files by making strings, images, tables and sections replacements in a previously created .odt file.” tags: ODF My Personal Blog: ODF Become National Format? “What a surprising news. ODF will soon become a mandatory format for all government documents. I have posted this since a year ago and [...]

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