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InternetNews May 5, 2006 Clint Boulton	Open Documents Get Unanimous Nod The International Standards Organization blessed the OpenDocument Format in a rousing 23-0 vote this week, making the digital document format a worldwide standard.
InternetNews March 3, 2006 Clint Boulton	Tech Rallies Around Open Document Format Several high profile and groups have banded together to show solidarity for the OpenDocument Format, a collection of office document formats to help organizations share digital information.
InternetNews February 2, 2007 Michael Hickins	Microsoft Produces One-Way ODF Translator Microsoft has produced a translator allowing competing word processing programs to read Open XML Word documents.
InternetNews December 7, 2006 Michael Hickins	Microsoft Office Open XML Sparks Standards Fight The Ecma standards organization approved Microsoft's document format, opening the door for certification by ISO, which has already approved a competing standard.
InternetNews February 15, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston	Microsoft 'Frees' Office Formats Microsoft places code and specs for its old Office binary file formats under its "no lawsuit" program; begins open source project.
InternetNews July 3, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston	Massachusetts to OK Microsoft OpenXML Formats Massachusetts' Information Technology Division published its proposal mandating the use of open formats for all public documents, and included Microsoft's Office Open XML on the list as well as the OpenDocument Format.
InternetNews September 12, 2005 Jim Wagner	Open Season in Massachusetts Expect short-term pain before long-term gain with the commonwealth's proposed switch to the OpenDocument standard.
InternetNews December 5, 2005 Clint Boulton	IBM Open to Office Docs IBM will support the Open Document format in its Workplace Managed Client software next year.
InternetNews May 17, 2007 Clint Boulton	Microsoft Steps Up With OpenDocument Format Microsoft Corp. today voted to support the addition of the OpenDocument Format 1.0 to the non-exclusive American National Standards list.
InternetNews August 7, 2009	A Ballot for Microsoft Office Users In Europe? Office may let users choose to set the default to save files in either ODF or OOXML.
InternetNews September 28, 2004 Michael Singer	Open Office XML May Satisfy ISO A letter to Sun Microsystems' COO Jonathan Schwartz by the European Commission this week may set the stage for the International Organization for Standardization to adopt the Open Office XML format as an ISO standard.
InternetNews February 28, 2007 Michael Hickins	Microsoft Closer on 'Office Open' Blessing Microsoft is one step closer to having its Office Open XML format adopted as an international standard in short order.
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2014 Rimkus et al.	Digital Preservation File Format Policies of ARL Member Libraries: An Analysis While concerted efforts have been made in the library community to encourage common standards, digital preservation policies regularly vary from one digital library service to another.
InternetNews June 2, 2005 Clint Boulton	Microsoft to Adopt XML Formats in Office 12 Microsoft said it will use XML technology as the default file formats for the next version of its productivity software, Office 12.
InternetNews August 2, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston	Massachusetts Adopts Office Open XML Despite negative comments, Massachusetts decides that Microsoft's Office formats will share "open" standard status with ODF.
InternetNews February 25, 2008	Microsoft Gets Another Shot at Open XML Standard Two-thirds majority needed as international delegates meet again on software company's proposal.
InternetNews May 23, 2005 Jim Wagner	A Standard Set For The Office Officials at the non-profit standards body OASIS, announced its approval of the OpenDocuments 1.0 specification as a standard XML format for text, spreadsheets, charts and graphical documents.
InternetNews July 7, 2006 Clint Boulton	Open Docs Faithful Tell Microsoft to Cut The FUD Microsoft's pledge to provide open-source plug-ins that form a bridge between the Open Document Format (ODF) and its own Open XML format caused a stir among standards experts from companies that back ODF.
PC Magazine July 13, 2005 Sebastian Rupley	Flipping File Formats Big changes are coming in the next version of Microsoft Office. Office 12 will have new XML-based file formats for Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. The OpenXML format will be the default for any file you create.
InternetNews March 7, 2006 Clint Boulton	OASIS Backs OpenDocument Group IBM, Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Novell spearhead an effort to promote OpenDocument Format software.
D-Lib November 2003 Muller et al.	The DiVA Project - Development of an Electronic Publishing System DiVA, a publishing system, treats the electronic copy of a document as the "digital master" for both electronic and print versions and uses data originally entered by the document author as the basis for creation, reuse, and enhancement of all metadata.
InternetNews March 13, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston	Microsoft Maps Out OOXML Developer Tools Effort continues on the format even as debate continues over whether Office Open XML will become an international standard.
InternetNews March 26, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston	Open Source Firm Teams With Microsoft While Microsoft waits whether Office 2007 file formats will get an ISO nod, it's making more conciliatory moves towards the open source community.
InternetNews July 20, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston	Office Open XML Standards Push Not Dead Yet A U.S. body is to vote on a standards status for Microsoft's document formats despite earlier deadlock by a consideration committee.
Linux Journal February 1, 2007 Marcel Gagne	Cooking with Linux - Words, Words, Words... When it comes to being understood and sharing information, it's not just about open source, it's about open standards.
D-Lib November 2004 Andreas Stanescu	Assessing the Durability of Formats in a Digital Preservation Environment: The INFORM Methodology Clearly, the process of measuring the preservation durability of digital formats is best done in collaboration with digital archives, global registries, institutional repositories, digital libraries, digital format experts, software and hardware developers and researchers.
InternetNews July 31, 2006 Clint Boulton	Microsoft, IBM Inject Life Into IT Management Others in the industry join the software giants in removing a major barrier to the adoption of XML-based services.
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The Motley Fool May 27, 2008 Anders Bylund	The Fall of Microsoft Office It will be long, slow, and painful, and Redmond won't know how to stop it.
InternetNews January 18, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston	Microsoft Defends OOXML In the run up to a final standards determination for its Office Open XML file formats, Microsoft makes its case.
PC Magazine December 28, 2004 Richard V. Dragan	Ease into XML with Microsoft Word 2003 Office 2003 is XML-aware, and Word is a good place to get your feet wet.
InternetNews April 22, 2004 Ryan Naraine	XML Encryption Added to Apache Project The Apache Foundation's XML Security Project takes another step towards full implementation of security standards in the markup language.
CIO February 1, 2007 Elizabeth Montalbano	Project Makes Web More Accessible to the Blind IBM has developed a set of application programming interfaces collectively called IAccessible2 which make it easy for visuals in applications based on ODF and other Web technologies to be interpreted by screen readers that reproduce information verbally.
PC World October 22, 2002 Yardena Arar	Microsoft Unveils Office 11 First beta reveals XML support enhancing collaborative functions, plus updated Outlook.
New Architect October 2002 Paul Sholtz	Tame the Information Tangle A new breed of document storage and management systems has appeared that's been specially optimized for publishing XML documents on the Web. A look at native XML databases and XML-enabled databases.
InternetNews March 11, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston	U.S. Likely to Re-affirm OOXML Vote The committee that advises the U.S. delegation to the International Organization for Standardization, which last fall voted to approve Microsoft's bid to make Office Open XML an ISO standard, has decided not to change its vote to 'disapprove.'
Information Today May 2009 Bill Greenwood	Securing Your Digital Future A look at various industry standard data formats used for storing archival data, and strategies for physical storage.
D-Lib June 2004 Sokvitne & Lavelle	Implementing an Open Jurisdictional Digital Repository - the STORS Project This starting point program for the State Library of Tasmania has already allowed the acquisition of significant Tasmanian digital content that would otherwise have been lost.
The Motley Fool September 8, 2005 Francois Olivier	Microsoft's New England Nemesis How will Massachusetts' move toward open source documents affect the software giant?
InternetNews December 4, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Novell Joins Microsoft in ODF Effort Six months after the initiative gets under way, Novell is lending its expertise to getting Open XML support into OpenOffice.org.
InternetNews January 29, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Adobe Ramps Up PDF Standards Push On the eve of the unveiling of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, Adobe announced it will push for its ubiquitous PDF format to become an international standard.
Information Today January 14, 2010	Ex Libris Announces the Beta Release of Rosetta Version 2.0 The system enables institutions to manage, preserve, and provide access to documents for perpetuity-institutional documents, research output in digital formats, digital images, websites, and other digitally born and digitized materials.
InternetNews September 10, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston	IBM Joins OpenOffice Group, Contributes Code The time may finally be right for OpenOffice to make headway against Microsoft's Office "hegemony," so IBM is adding its weight to the putsch.
InternetNews September 2, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Massachusetts Eyes Open Office Standards The state is considering a move from Microsoft to open standards office software. The goal is to make sure state documents and government records are accessible.
InternetNews March 21, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston	OOXML Stalemate May Lead to Cliff-Hanger Ending Microsoft officials confirmed that India will not change its vote against approval of OOXML as an ISO standard.
IEEE Spectrum July 2005 MacKenzie Smith	External Bits How can we preserve digital files and save our collective memory? The open-source DSpace project sees not only the problem of preserving the data, but also making it readable, playable or watchable many years later.
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