Invitation to comment on Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.3 – ends Sept. 29th

14 Sep 2020

Content Technologies

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 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.

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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