{"id":48,"date":"2006-12-27T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T04:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2d823b65bb.nxcli.io\/2006\/12\/and-then-there-were-three.html"},"modified":"2006-12-27T23:51:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-28T04:51:00","slug":"and-then-there-were-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/and-then-there-were-three.html","title":{"rendered":"And then there were three&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ODF, OOXML and now, UOF.     This story broke back in November, with some good coverage including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Andy Updegrove: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consortiuminfo.org\/standardsblog\/article.php?story=2006110806164573\">Another Open Document Format \u2013 From China<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consortiuminfo.org\/standardsblog\/article.php?story=20061122040402230\">More on China&#8217;s Uniform Office Format (and much more)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jeff Kaplan: <a href=\"http:\/\/jakaplan.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/is-china-pulling-bill-gates-on-odf.html\">Is China Pulling a Bill Gates on ODF?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>David Berlind: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/BTL\/?p=3913\">China&#8217;s own document standard: A clear message to US IT vendors?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Rick Jelliffe: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreillynet.com\/xml\/blog\/2006\/12\/why_chinas_uof_is_good.html\">Why China&#8217;s UOF is good<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Stephen Walli:  <a href=\"http:\/\/stephesblog.blogs.com\/my_weblog\/2006\/11\/open_standards_.html\">Open Standards, IPR and Innovation Conference, Beijing (2006)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Neil McAllister: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/06\/12\/04\/49OPopenent_1.html\">China aims to set a new office doc standard<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Luyi Chen:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwrblog.net\/392\/chinas-own-office-document-format-aiming-to-harmonize-with-odf.html\">China&#8217;s Own Office Document Format Aiming to Harmonize with ODF<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Evan Leibovitch: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itbusiness.ca\/it\/client\/en\/home\/News.asp?id=41588&#038;cid=10\">Debate over document formats not just academic<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is not much commentary I can add to what the above authors have already stated.   Let&#8217;s just say that this is an important and exciting development.<\/p>\n<p>On the technical side there is some important progress on harmonization, some preparatory work done in a joint research program between Peking University and IBM.   The results of this year-long effort are now available:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A 150-page report (in English and Chinese) called &#8220;A Comparison Between ODF and UOF&#8221;.  This document compares the two standards feature-by-feature and explains how to map data between the two.  <\/li>\n<li>A UOF-ODF Convertor, an open source Java-based tool, licensed under the LGPL, which provides bi-directional conversions of the three office document types (word processor, spreadsheet and presentation).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The report, the tool, the source code and a lot more information is available up at the <a href=\"http:\/\/odf-to-uof.sourceforge.net\/index.html\">project&#8217;s page<\/a> on SourceForge.  I hope this both addresses the immediate-term interoperability needs between ODF and UOF, as well as lays the foundation for a deeper technical discussion of additional harmonization steps which can be taken to improve interoperability even further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ODF, OOXML and now, UOF. This story broke back in November, with some good coverage including: Andy Updegrove: Another Open Document Format \u2013 From China and More on China&#8217;s Uniform Office Format (and much more) Jeff Kaplan: Is China Pulling a Bill Gates on ODF? David Berlind: China&#8217;s own document standard: A clear message to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-odf","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}