{"id":247,"date":"2009-11-16T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2d823b65bb.nxcli.io\/2009\/11\/odf-1-2-part-3-goes-out-for-public-review.html"},"modified":"2009-12-27T22:01:26","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T03:01:26","slug":"odf-12-part-3-goes-out-for-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/odf-12-part-3-goes-out-for-public.html","title":{"rendered":"ODF 1.2, Part 3 goes out for Public Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

A major milestone for ODF 1.2 was reached on Friday. Part 3 of ODF 1.2, which specifies document packaging (how a document’s XML, images and metadata are combined into a single file and are optionally encrypted or signed), went out for a 60-day public review period. This public review period will run through January 12th, 2010. A public review is a necessary OASIS procedure before a Committee Draft can be approved as a Committee Specification and then as an OASIS Standard.<\/p>\n

The official announcement<\/a> of the review has more information, including links to download<\/a> the public review draft and information on how to submit comments<\/a> on the draft.<\/p>\n

Compared to the packaging specification used in ODF 1.0 and ODF 1.1, the main differences are:<\/p>\n

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  1. We’ve split this material into its own specification, since these packaging conventions are more widely applicable, and in fact have been more widely used than just in ODF. For example, the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), who standardize the increasingly important ePub digital book format, use ODF’s packaging as the base of their Open eBook Publication Structure Container Format (OCF) 1.0<\/a> specification.<\/li>\n
  2. We’ve added digital signature support (chapter 4) based on the W3C’s XML Digital Signature Core, including the ability to use standardized extensions such as XAdES<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  3. We now have an RDF-based metadata framework with OWL ontology for the manifest file (chapter 5).<\/li>\n
  4. We include a more detailed conformance definition has been added, including conformance targets for packages, producers and consumers, as well as a separate conformance class for extended packages.<\/li>\n
  5. Generally, a redraft of the specification to ISO style guidelines.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This specification is only 34 pages long, so if you’re at all interested please give it a look\u00a0 between now and January 12th, and send along any comments via the office-comment<\/a> list. Anything that improves the specification is welcome, from reports of typographical errors, to technical omissions or errors, to suggestions for future features. It is all good.<\/p>\n

    And if you want to follow along, you can track the incoming comments in several ways:<\/p>\n