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2008-04-11

nfoWorks: What Are those
Harmony Principles, Again?

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Tags: ODF-OOXML Harmonization, nfoWorks, Harmony
Principles, open standards, document
formats, interoperability

As part of readying the nfoWorks site for hoarding my
hunter-gatherings for available materials in the wild, I have produced a
refinement of the original
attempt at some Harmony Principles.  The latest attempt will now
be kept part of the "About
nfoWorks" page, and an early draft (0.1 beta) is now available.

There is additional information being filled in over the next several
days:

Harmony Principles

Deliverables

Incremental Development

Start-Up Activities

Related Work

References and Resources

This is a typical first draft, with many sections simply being
placeholders for content yet to come.

In arranging this material and the site, I did not have the foresight
to create a blog or provide RSS feeds of the accounts being made on the
site itself.  This post is my penance for that.  There is no way
to make comments on nfoWorks, but you can always
comment here and I will take notice.

Meanwhile, here are the basic ideas:

nfoWorks explores just how well documents can be made
fully exchangeable when using a mix of different OpenDocument and Office
Open XML implementations.

The first question: What prerequisites and restraints must be
satisfied to ensure that documents are fully exchangeable and users can
be confident that is the case?

The next question: Is there enough harmonization for users to
willingly create, collaborate, and preserve their work using only only
harmonious features of documents?

I offer these conditions of
satisfaction for a high-level sense of what's intended:

Users can be confident their creations honor the format standards
and depend only on their harmonious features.  The Harmony
Principles are honored by default.

Users can be confident that documents confined to a particular
profile of harmonious features can be interchanged and interoperated
with via any software programs that honor the Harmony Principles for the
class.

In the event that a document relies on features beyond the
harmonious level supported by a software product, profile-allowed
limitation to supported features is explicit, automatic, and
user-understandable.

Additional explanation and expanding detail are found via the About nfoWorks
page.

posted by orcmid at 4/11/2008
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