[Bradford] Uk Gov proposes to use only document formats based on Open Standards in future.

[Andrew Coulson]

I spy a caveat... Documents may be shared in other formats but only in response to a specific request from a user Which to my nasty suspicious mind suggests that if a few large contractors "request" sticking to docx this could end up being the de facto format on large projects. However this is good news, and interesting to see that most of the comments are broadly supportive too. Andrew Coulson email: coulson.andy at gmail.com | tel: 07834 269850 LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/andrew-coulson/50/41/5a0/ Ryburn TextWorks - Proofreading, Copy-editing, Writing. Follow us on Twitter @RyburnTextWorks Ryburn ImageWorks - Landscape and Nature Photography Sent from my IQTELL Virtual Workspace From: david C (caprenter at gmail.com) Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014 09:40 AM To: bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk Subject: [Bradford] Uk Gov proposes to use only document formats based on Open Standards in future.   Have you seen this? http://standards.data.gov.uk/proposal/sharing-collaborating-government-documents They propose: Standards to be used: HTML 4.01 - ISO/IEC 15445:2000 Information technology - Document description and processing languages - HyperText Markup Language (HTML) HTML5 ODF 1.1 - ISO/IEC 26300: 2006/Amd 1: 2012 Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.1 ODF 1.2 - Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) Version 1.2 Other standards to be used: CSV TXT Nice. FSF Europe has a comment at: http://standards.data.gov.uk/comment/865#comment-865 Cheers David _______________________________________________ Bradford mailing list Bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bradford
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