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The specification, defining a free, open document file format for office applications, enters the 60-day public review that precedes the call for consent as an OASIS Standard

OASIS and the OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC [1] are pleased to announce that Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) Version 1.3 Committee Specification 02 is now available for public review and comment in preparation of the call for consent as an OASIS Standard.

The OpenDocument Format is a free, open XML-based document file format for office applications, to be used for documents containing text, spreadsheets, charts, and graphical elements. OpenDocument Format v1.3 is an update to the international standard Version 1.2, which was approved by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as ISO/IEC 26300 (2015). OpenDocument Format v1.3 includes improvements for document security, clarifies under-specified components, and makes other timely improvements.

The OpenDocument Format specifies the characteristics of an open XML-based application-independent and platform-independent digital document file format, as well as the characteristics of software applications which read, write and process such documents. It is applicable to document authoring, editing, viewing, exchange and archiving, including text documents, spreadsheets, presentation graphics, drawings, charts and similar documents commonly used by personal productivity software applications.

The TC has received 3 Statements of Use from The Document Foundation, CIB labs GmbH, and Collabora Productivity [3].

The candidate specification and related files are available here:

Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) Version 1.3
Committee Specification 02
30 October 2020

Part 1: Introduction
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part1-introduction/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part1-introduction.odt (Authoritative)
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part1-introduction/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part1-introduction.html
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part1-introduction/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part1-introduction.pdf

Part 2: Packages
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part2-packages/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part2-packages.odt (Authoritative)
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part2-packages/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part2-packages.html
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part2-packages/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part2-packages.pdf

Part 3: OpenDocument Schema
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part3-schema/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part3-schema.odt (Authoritative)
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part3-schema/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part3-schema.html
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part3-schema/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part3-schema.pdf

Part 4: Recalculated Formula (OpenFormula) Format
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part4-formula/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part4-formula.odt (Authoritative)
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part4-formula/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part4-formula.html
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part4-formula/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part4-formula.pdf

XML/RNG schemas and OWL ontologies
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/schemas/

For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the specification document and any related files in ZIP distribution files. You can download the ZIP file at:

https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02.zip

Public Review Period

The 60-day public review starts now and ends 12 April 2021 at 23:59 UTC.

This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility as explained in the instructions located via the button labeled “Send A Comment” at the top of the TC public home page, or directly at:

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=office

Comments submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of this TC are publicly archived and can be viewed at:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public review of Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) Version 1.3, we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [4] applicable especially [5] to the work of this technical committee. All members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member’s patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved OASIS specification.

OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation of the above specification, so that notice of them may be posted to the notice page for this TC’s work.

Additional information

[1] OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/office/

[2] Approval ballot:
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=3562

[3] Statements of Use:

• The Document Foundation – https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office-comment/202101/msg00003.html
• DIB labs GmbH – https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/202012/msg00020.html
• Collabra Productivity – https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office-comment/202101/msg00000.html

[4] http://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr

[5] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/office/ipr.php
https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#RF-on-Limited-Mode
RF on Limited Terms Mode

[6] TC Process for OASIS Standard
https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/tc-process-2017-05-26#OASISstandard

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OpenDocument v1.3 Committee Specification 02 is fully ready for testing and implementation.

OASIS is pleased to announce that Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.3 from the OpenDocument TC [1] has been approved as an OASIS Committee Specification.

The OpenDocument Format is an open XML-based document file format for office applications, to be used for documents containing text, spreadsheets, charts, and graphical elements. OpenDocument Format v1.3 is an update to the international standard Version 1.2, which was approved by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as ISO/IEC 26300 (2015). OpenDocument Format v1.3 includes improvements for document security, clarifies underspecifications and makes other timely improvements.

The OpenDocument Format specifies the characteristics of an open XML-based application-independent and platform-independent digital document file format, as well as the characteristics of software applications which read, write and process such documents. It is applicable to document authoring, editing, viewing, exchange and archiving, including text documents, spreadsheets, presentation graphics, drawings, charts and similar documents commonly used by personal productivity software applications.

This Committee Specification is an OASIS deliverable, completed and approved by the TC and fully ready for testing and implementation.

The prose specifications and related files are available here:

Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) Version 1.3
Committee Specification 02
30 October 2020

Part 1: Introduction
Editable source (Authoritative):
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part1-introduction/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part1-introduction.odt
HTML:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part1-introduction/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part1-introduction.html
PDF:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part1-introduction/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part1-introduction.pdf

Part 2: Packages
Editable source (Authoritative):
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part2-packages/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part2-packages.odt
HTML:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part2-packages/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part2-packages.html
PDF:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part2-packages/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part2-packages.pdf

Part 3: OpenDocument Schema
Editable source (Authoritative):
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part3-schema/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part3-schema.odt
HTML:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part3-schema/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part3-schema.html
PDF:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part3-schema/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part3-schema.pdf

Part 4: Recalculated Formula (OpenFormula) Format
Editable source (Authoritative):
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part4-formula/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part4-formula.odt
HTML:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part4-formula/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part4-formula.html
PDF:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part4-formula/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part4-formula.pdf

XML/RNG schemas and OWL ontologies:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/schemas/

For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose specification and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download the ZIP file at:

https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02.zip

Members of the OpenDocument TC [1] approved this specification by Special Majority Vote. The specification had been released for public review as required by the TC Process [2]. The vote to approve as a Committee Specification passed [3], and the document is now available online in the OASIS Library as referenced above.

Our congratulations to the TC on achieving this milestone and our thanks to the reviewers who provided feedback on the specification drafts to help improve the quality of the work.

Additional references:

[1] OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/office/

[2] Previous public reviews:

• 30-day public review – 25 September 2019:
  https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/201909/msg00061.html
  • Comment resolution log:
    https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/csprd01/OpenDocument-v1.3-csprd01-comment-resolution-log.txt
• 15-day public review – 27 November 2019:
  https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/201911/msg00017.html
  • Comment resolution log:
    https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/csprd02/OpenDocument-v1.3-csprd02-comment-resolution-log.txt
• 15-day public review – 14 September 2020:
  https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/202009/msg00028.html
  • Comment resolution log:
    https://github.com/oasis-tcs/odf-tc/pull/30#issuecomment-715261301

[3] Approval ballot:
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=3529

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We are pleased to announce that Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.3 from the OpenDocument TC [1] is now available for public review and comment. This is the third public review for OpenDocument v1.3.

The OpenDocument Format is an open XML-based document file format for office applications, to be used for documents containing text, spreadsheets, charts, and graphical elements. OpenDocument Format v1.3 is an update to the international standard Version 1.2, which was approved by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as ISO/IEC 26300 (2015).

OpenDocument Format v1.3 includes improvements for document security, clarifies under-specifications and makes other timely improvements.

The OpenDocument Format specifies the characteristics of an open XML-based application-independent and platform-independent digital document file format, as well as the characteristics of software applications which read, write and process such documents. It is applicable to document authoring, editing, viewing, exchange and archiving, including text documents, spreadsheets, presentation graphics, drawings, charts and similar documents commonly used by personal productivity software applications.

The documents and related files are available here:

Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) Version 1.3
Committee Specification Draft 03
31 August 2020

• Part 1: Introduction
  Editable source (Authoritative):
  https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/csd03/part1-introduction/OpenDocument-v1.3-csd03-part1-introduction.odt
  HTML:
  https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/csd03/part1-introduction/OpenDocument-v1.3-csd03-part1-introduction.html
  PDF:
  https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/csd03/part1-introduction/OpenDocument-v1.3-csd03-part1-introduction.pdf
• Part 2: Packages
  Editable source (Authoritative):
  https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/csd03/part2-packages/OpenDocument-v1.3-csd03-part2-packages.odt
  HTML:
  https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/csd03/part2-packages/OpenDocument-v1.3-csd03-part2-packages.html
  PDF:
  https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/csd03/part2-packages/OpenDocument-v1.3-csd03-part2-packages.pdf
• Part 3: OpenDocument Schema
  Editable source (Authoritative):
  https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/csd03/part3-schema/OpenDocument-v1.3-csd03-part3-schema.odt
  HTML:
  https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/csd03/part3-schema/OpenDocument-v1.3-csd03-part3-schema.html
  PDF:
  https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/csd03/part3-schema/OpenDocument-v1.3-csd03-part3-schema.pdf
• Part 4: Recalculated Formula (OpenFormula) Format
  Editable source (Authoritative):
  https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/csd03/part4-formula/OpenDocument-v1.3-csd03-part4-formula.odt
  HTML:
  https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/csd03/part4-formula/OpenDocument-v1.3-csd03-part4-formula.html
  PDF:
  https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/csd03/part4-formula/OpenDocument-v1.3-csd03-part4-formula.pdf
• XML/RNG schemas and OWL ontologies:
  https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/csd03/schemas/

For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose specification and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download the ZIP file at:

https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/csd03/OpenDocument-v1.3-csd03.zip

How to Provide Feedback

OASIS and the OpenDocument TC value your feedback. We solicit feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

This public review starts 15 September 2020 at 00:00 UTC and ends 29 September 2020 at 11:59 UTC. This specification was previously submitted for public review [2]. This 15-day review is limited in scope to changes made from the previous review. Changes are highlighted in change-marked files included in the package [3].

Comments on the work may be submitted to the TC by following the instructions located at: https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/form.php?wg_abbrev=office Feedback submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of this TC is publicly archived and can be viewed at: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members.

In connection with the public review of these works, we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [4] applicable especially [5] to the work of this technical committee. All members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member’s patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved OASIS specification. OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation of the above specification, so that notice of them may be posted to the notice page for this TC’s work.

Additional information about this specification and the OpenDocument TC may be found on the TC’s public home page [1]. Additional information related to this public review can be found in the public review metadata document [2].

========== Additional references:

[1] OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/office/

[2] Public review metadata document:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/csd03/OpenDocument-v1.3-csd03-public-review-metadata.html

[3] Change-marked versions (PDF):
Part 1: Introduction https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/csd03/part1-introduction/OpenDocument-v1.3-csd03-part1-introduction-DIFF.pdf
Part 2: Packages https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/csd03/part2-packages/OpenDocument-v1.3-csd03-part2-packages-DIFF.pdf
Part 3: OpenDocument Schema https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/csd03/part3-schema/OpenDocument-v1.3-csd03-part3-schema-DIFF.pdf
Part 4: Recalculated Formula (OpenFormula) Format https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/csd03/part4-formula/OpenDocument-v1.3-csd03-part4-formula-DIFF.pdf

[4] https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr

[5] https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/office/ipr.php
https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#RF-on-Limited-Mode
RF on Limited Terms Mode

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Response

The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks for companies or individuals to

provide consultancy on implementing ODF 1.3 conformance in LibreOffice

to start work as soon as possible. TDF is looking for an individual or company to give technical consultancy on ensuring that LibreOffice will properly implement the Open Document Format (ODF) version 1.3 for both importing and exporting. This can involve one or more of the following tasks:

• move all elements and attributes with foreign namespaces into the ODF namespace, as far as they are standardized in ODF 1.3
• adapt and adjust the ODF schema validator to validate against ODF 1.3 and ODF 1.3 extended
• identify and address relevant bugs and issues from https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=582656&query_format=advanced&resolution=—&status_whiteboard=odf_validation&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr (or https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&list_id=1037384&query_format=advanced&status_whiteboard=odf_validation&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr)
• identify and address relevant bugs and issues from https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=582655&query_format=advanced&resolution=—&status_whiteboard=odf&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr (or https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&list_id=1037384&query_format=advanced&status_whiteboard=odf&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr)
• update the LibreOffice UI, so that the user can choose to use ODF 1.3 and ODF 1.3 extended in addition to the already existing options
• update of relevant help texts
• update of https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/ODF_Implementer_Notes/List_of_LibreOffice_ODF_Extensions
• providing unit tests for elements and attributes new or changed in ODF 1.3, to make sure saving to ODF 1.2 produces foreign namespace, but saving to ODF 1.3 does not
• provide test documents with elements and attributes, which are new or changed in ODF 1.3, for use in import-export tests
• verify that elements and attributes that are implemented in LibreOffice but not yet standardized are still written in a foreign namespace
• identify elements and attributes which are new or changed in ODF 1.3 and not yet implemented in LibreOffice
• ideally, make sure old versions of LibreOffice can access ODF 1.3 files properly

Required skills

• Extensive knowledge of C++
• Experience working on the LibreOffice source code
• Experience with implementing and testing the Open Document Format

We exclusively use free, libre and open source (FLOSS) software for development wherever possible, and the resulting work must be licensed under the Mozilla Public License v2.0.

Other skills

• English (conversationally fluent in order to coordinate and plan with members of TDF)

TDF welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

Bidders will get a preference for including a partner or independent developer who has not been involved in a successful tender before.

As always, TDF will give some preference to individuals who have previously shown a commitment to TDF, including but not limited to certified developers and/or members of TDF. Not being a member, or never having contributed before, does not exclude any applicants from consideration.

The task offered is a project-based one-off, with no immediate plans to a mid- or long-term contractual relationship. It is offered on a freelance, project basis. Individuals and companies applying can be located anywhere in the world.

TDF is looking forward to receiving your applications for one or more of the aforementioned tasks, your financial expectations and the earliest date of your availability, via e-mail to a committee at tender20191101@documentfoundation.org no later than November 15, 2019.

Applicants who have not received feedback by November 29, 2019, should consider that their application, after careful review, was not accepted.

Additional information as per 2019-11-06: When budgeting, we anticipated that this project to take in the region of 20 (twenty) days of work