[open-government] More than eightly formats for open government data

Mon Sep 10 13:45:43 UTC 2012

ISO standard does not mean open. One simple rule to determine openness
IMHO should be : public specs + non-proprietary, therefore not OOXML,
as it was perfeclty exposed into the open standard definition proposed
by the European commission
<http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/3761/5845.html>.

Benjamin

PS: >> and can we stop calling xlsx a closed format, please?
Can we please take a look at this and find answers to why in hell we
would want to use a format that destroys the quality of the data
anyway ?
http://ooxmlisdefectivebydesign.blogspot.fr/

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1:23 PM, stef <s at ctrlc.hu> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 08:24:35PM +0200, Jose M. Alonso wrote:
>> > talking about formats, can anyone please liberate the data from excel to some less closed format.
>>
>> and can we stop calling xlsx a closed format, please?
>
> please read my statement again, i called for a less closed format, which is a
> relative thing. but i admit using the wording "more interoperable" would have
> been better, the word "open" is tainted too much anyway.
>
> i am unaware of any successful plugfests where diverse set of industry
> offerings have shown that OOXML offerings are indeed interoperable.
>
> openness is not an absolute as you suggest. a good guideline to measure
> the relative openness of a standards has been developed by Ken Krechmer:
> http://www.csrstds.com/openstds.html
>
> according to this scale OOXML is not very open.
>
>> Not that I'm a big fan of how OOXML [1] was standardized but it's an ECMA and ISO standard, i.e. open enough.
>
> that only means it has been rubberstamped, i wouldn't call open when some
> wealthy individual/corporation buys himself a standard.
>
> stefan marsiske
> Open Standards Alliance
> Vice-President - Infrastucture.
>
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