TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluating the interoperability of document formats
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, ICEGOV'08
AU - Shah, Rajiv
AU - Kesan, Jay
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - This project assesses the current state of interoperability among different software implementations of the document formats OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Office Open XML (OOXML). Numerous governments are considering mandating either or both formats for their electronic documents. For ODF, the dominant implementation is OpenOffice.org and for OOXML, the dominant implementation is Microsoft Office. This research scores the performance of other alternative implementations for ODF and OOXML. The goal is to assess the current state of interoperability for document formats. The results show that there are no alternative implementations, for either ODF or OOXML, that offer 100% compatibility with the dominant implementations. The results are troubling and suggest the need for improved interoperability testing. Without such testing, governments will be locked-in into the dominant implementations for either standard.
AB - This project assesses the current state of interoperability among different software implementations of the document formats OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Office Open XML (OOXML). Numerous governments are considering mandating either or both formats for their electronic documents. For ODF, the dominant implementation is OpenOffice.org and for OOXML, the dominant implementation is Microsoft Office. This research scores the performance of other alternative implementations for ODF and OOXML. The goal is to assess the current state of interoperability for document formats. The results show that there are no alternative implementations, for either ODF or OOXML, that offer 100% compatibility with the dominant implementations. The results are troubling and suggest the need for improved interoperability testing. Without such testing, governments will be locked-in into the dominant implementations for either standard.
KW - Document formats
KW - Interoperability testing
KW - Office Open XML (OOXML)
KW - Open Document Format (ODF)
KW - Open standards
KW - Public policy
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U2 - 10.1145/1509096.1509141
DO - 10.1145/1509096.1509141
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70349114637
SN - 9781605583860
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 219
EP - 225
BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, ICEGOV'08
Y2 - 1 December 2008 through 4 December 2008
ER -