nfoWorks: Pursuing Harmony

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This is the web diary for nfoWorks and realization of the Harmony Principles. Pursuing Harmony tracks nfoWorks research, analysis, specification, and implementation of tools for document interoperability. There is commentary on related activities that address conformance, interoperability, and harmonization of document formats. Blog Feed Recent Items Republishing before Silence The Real Challenge of Achieving and Sustaining Int... Let’s Try This for a While Hooptedoodle: Blog Aversion and Standards Ignoranc... ODF Implementation-Support Toolkits and Libraries Adding Pursuing Harmony to Technorati Office Shots for Confirmed ODF Interchange Fidelit... ODF Interoperability at The Hague ODF and IPR/Licensing Concerns Open Government Data: Simple Principles The nfoCentrale Blog Conclave Millennia Antica: The Kiln Sitter's Diary nfoWorks: Pursuing Harmony Numbering Peano Orcmid's Lair Orcmid's Live Hideout Prof. von Clueless in the Blunder Dome Spanner Wingnut's Muddleware Lab (experimental) nfoCentrale Associated Sites DMA: The Document Management Alliance DMware: Document Management Interoperability Exchange Millennia Antica Pottery The Miser Project nfoCentrale: the Anchor Site nfoWare: Information Processing Technology nfoWorks: Tools for Document Interoperability NuovoDoc: Design for Document System Interoperability ODMA Interoperability Exchange Orcmid's Lair TROST: Open-System Trustworthiness	2008-10-15 DITA for Technical Standards Publishing Technorati Tags: DITA, OASIS, technical standards, XML From the Cover Pages: XML Daily Newslink for 2008-10-14, there is announcement that the OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) Technical Committee has formed a new subcommittee. The DITA for Technical Standards Subcommittee has the ambitious purpose of furthering and promoting DITA use for the creation, maintenance, and support of technical standards specifications. The idea is to have a “common standard for the creation and publication of … technical standards specifications:” “The first effort will be to assess and define common requirements for the maintenance and publication of technical standards. This will provide the common requirements for the specific capabilities that DITA should provide. Finally, the group will create necessary enhancements to DITA standards and deliverables, including the DITA Open Toolkit with a Toolkit for Technical Specifications.” There is more in the announcement of subcommittee formation on the (semi-official?) DITA online community site. The official subcommittee operation is to be set up on the OASIS DITA TC page. I’m not sure that this has any near-term benefit, but it does arouse my interest in another way. I am finding it very difficult to wrap my head around the current and in-progress OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Office Open XML (OOXML) specifications. I need some way to wrestle out my understanding in a way that allows me to surface a conceptualization of the functions of either in a way that their reconciliation at the Harmony Principles level can be grasped and described in some useful way. DITA surfaces on my radar from time to time. It is something I think I should know more about. I don’t know how to apply it in the context of standard document formats, nor am I clear how it is applicable to the conceptualization and expression of document-format standards. It does strike me that some help is needed, based on my early efforts in the analysis of ODF specifications. (At this point, concept-mapping software might be even more useful, and I will look into that as well.) It is time to dig deeper into DITA to see how it can support a harmonization effort with regard to office document formats and their harmonizable specification. Labels: conceptualization, DITA, interoperability ¶ posted by orcmid at 10/15/2008 12:40:00 PM from: