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Home  News Open Document Format Accepted as Official ISO Standard
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Open Document Format Accepted as Official ISO Standard |
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14.12.2006. |
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) published the Open Document Format (ODF) as an official standard on November 30, 2006 after approving it as an international standard in May, 2006. The ODF file format—the XML-based open format for text, spreadsheet, database, and presentation files—is now published under the standard name of ISO/IEC 26300:2006.
ODF is being championed as the accessible file format by accessibility groups, as the open standard must face public peer review to evaluate its accessibility as opposed to other, proprietary formats (such as .doc). Since it is specified as a public document, the idea is that anyone can create software for it under any platform at any time for those with disabilities without worrying about royalties or implementation barriers, not to mention those who simply like being able to move files around without concerning themselves with incompatible formats.
Many countries already adopted ODF as an official standard. Brazil decided to recommend ODF as the government's preferred format. In addition, India decided to use ODF at a major state government agency while Italy recognized ODF as a national standard.
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