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Open Document Format (ODF) is the native file format of LibreOffice, and of many other enterprise and personal productivity applications. ODF is an XML-based open standard file format for office documents, such as spreadsheets, text documents, and presentations. ODF is application-, platform-, and vendor-neutral, and thereby facilitates broad interoperability of office documents. ODF is the only true standard file format for office documents, but is still lesser known than proprietary file formats, although countries such as UK, France, the Netherlands and Sweden in Europe and Taiwan in Asia have recognized it as the preferred file format for government documents. If you want to get an overview of ODF characteristics, this article from Rob Weir is one of the best starting points. Rob Weir has been a leading member of the ODF Technical Committee (TC) at OASIS. In 2009, when he has published the article, he was co-chair of the OASIS ODF TC, as well as a member of the OASIS ODF Adoption TC and the OASIS ODF Interoperability and Conformance TC, and a representative in ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC34 for the US.

Andy Updegrove is a standards advocate, and has supported ODF since its inception. He is the author of Consortium Info, and of the related blog about standards. Between November 2007 and January 2008 he has summarized in a series of five blog posts what he has defined “a standards war of truly epic proportions: the ongoing (at the time), ever expanding, still escalating conflict between ODF and OOXML, a battle that is playing out across five continents and in both the halls of government and the marketplace alike”. It is an interesting reading, especially if you are involved in ODF today and miss the historic background: Chapter 1: War of the Words (an eBook in Process) Chapter 2: Products, Innovation and Market Share Chapter 3: What a Difference a Decade Can Make Chapter 4: Eric Kriss, Peter Quinn and the ETRM Chapter 5: Open Standards

Information on the ODF standard and how to move your organization to ODF-compliant document solutions The document has been forked in a textual format (Pandoc’s Markdown) by Paolo Dongilli, to keep track of versions and changes, correct typos, add new content and easily fork it for localization purposes. It is available on GitHub: https://github.com/paolodongilli/ODF-Guidance. This guidance gives general information on the standard, as well as more detailed information for chief technology officers and government procurement officers. Table of Contents: Introduction to Open Document Format (ODF) Procure ODF solutions Base ODF solutions on user needs Validators and compliance testing Platforms and devices Accessibility Privacy and security Avoid macros in documents Integrate ODF with enterprise tools Extensions, plugins and custom solutions Collaborate on documents Change tracking in ODF Embed fonts in ODF documents Corporate styles and templates ODF spreadsheets and formulas Support and training Overview of productivity software Costs and benefits of ODF

In July 2014, the UK government has selected Open Document Format (ODF) – LibreOffice native document format, officially published as international ISO/IEC standard 26300 on November 30, 2006 – as the standard for editable office documents to be used across all government offices. The documents in this collection (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/open-document-format-odf-guidance) look at the ODF standard and related procurement issues. These include how to make sure applications and services dealing with editable documents are ODF-compliant. There are four documents in the collection: 1. Open Document Format (ODF): an introduction; 2. Open Document Format (ODF): procurement; 3. Open Document Format (ODF): user needs; and 4. Open Document Format (ODF): validators and compliance testing. They are a useful resource for all LibreOffice advocates.