Invitation to comment on OpenDocument Version 1.4 before call for consent as OASIS Standard – ends September 7th
Invitation to comment on OpenDocument Version 1.4 before call for consent as OASIS Standard - ends September 7th
OASIS Members and other interested parties,
OASIS and the Open Document TC [1] are pleased to announce that Open Document Version 1.4 CS01 is now available for public review and comment.
The OpenDocument Format (ODF) is an open XML-based document file format for office applications to be used for documents containing text, spreadsheets, charts, and graphical elements. The file format makes transformations to other formats simply by leveraging and reusing existing standards wherever possible. As an open standard under the stewardship of OASIS, OpenDocument also creates the possibility for new types of applications and solutions to be developed other than traditional office productivity applications.
The TC received three Statements of Use from Microsoft, Allotropia Software GmbH, and The Document Foundation [3].
The candidate specification and related files are available here:
OpenDocument Version 1.4
Part 1: Introduction
Committee Specification 01
2 August 2024
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.4/cs01/part1-introduction/OpenDocument-v1.4-cs01-part1-introduction.odt(Authoritative)
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.4/cs01/part1-introduction/OpenDocument-v1.4-cs01-part1-introduction.html
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.4/cs01/part1-introduction/OpenDocument-v1.4-cs01-part1-introduction.pdf
OpenDocument Version 1.4
Part 2: Packages
Committee Specification 01
2 August 2024
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.4/cs01/part2-packages/OpenDocument-v1.4-cs01-part2-packages.odt(Authoritative)
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.4/cs01/part2-packages/OpenDocument-v1.4-cs01-part2-packages.html
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.4/cs01/part2-packages/OpenDocument-v1.4-cs01-part2-packages.pdf
OpenDocument Version 1.4
Part 3: OpenDocument Schema
Committee Specification 01
2 August 2024
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.4/cs01/part3-schema/OpenDocument-v1.4-cs01-part3-schema.odt (Authoritative)
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.4/cs01/part3-schema/OpenDocument-v1.4-cs01-part3-schema.html
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.4/cs01/part3-schema/OpenDocument-v1.4-cs01-part3-schema.pdf
OpenDocument Version 1.4
Part 4: Recalculated Formula (OpenFormula) Format
Committee Specification 01
2 August 2024
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.4/cs01/part4-formula/OpenDocument-v1.4-cs01-part4-formula.odt (Authoritative)
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.4/cs01/part4-formula/OpenDocument-v1.4-cs01-part4-formula.html
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.4/cs01/part4-formula/OpenDocument-v1.4-cs01-part4-formula.pdf
Schema files are located here.
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: OpenDocument-v1.4-cs01.zip
Members of the Open Document TC approved this specification by Special Majority Vote [2]. The specification had been released for public review as required by the TC Process.
Public Review Period
The 60-day public review is now open and ends 7 September 2025 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 project by any person through the use of the project’s Comment Facility. Members of the TC should submit feedback directly to the TC’s members-only mailing list. All others should follow the instructions listed here.
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 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 references:
[2] Approval ballot
[3] Links to Statements of Use
Microsoft:
https://groups.oasis-open.org/discussion/statement-of-use-from-microsoft
Allotropia Software GmbH:
https://groups.oasis-open.org/discussion/statement-of-use-for-open-document-format-for-office-applications-opendocument-version-14-cs01
Document Foundation:
https://groups.oasis-open.org/discussion/fwd-statement-of-use-odf-14
[4] https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr/
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/office/ipr.php