**Apologies for cross posting**

I picked this up from the ARMA listserve yesterday and thought it may be
of interest.

Cheers
Paula

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-----Original Message-----
From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Jesse Wilkins
Sent: Thursday, 3 April 2008 4:03 a.m.
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Subject: MS OOXML an ISO standard

Hi all, 

 

In case you either missed this yesterday (or thought it was an April
Fool's
Day joke): Microsoft Open Office XML received 75% of the ISO votes and
has
become ISO/IEC 29500. The formal ISO press release can be found at
http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1123. It joins ISO/IEC
26300:2006, Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) as formal
standards for document interchange. ISO/DIS 32000, the standardization
of
PDF 1.7, is still in progress but is expected to be approved later this
month. 

 

This means that organizations now have two standardized, XML-based file
formats to choose from in order to maximize the potential for accessing
electronic information over time. There are a number of applications
that
can create ODF-compliant documents; Microsoft Office does NOT create
ISO/IEC
29500-compliant documents yet but is expected to sometime later this
year.
The OOXML documents Office does create today are ECMA-376 compliant
(approved December 2006) but not exactly the same as what was formalized
in
29500. The Wikipedia article is pretty good
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML) and the list of
references at
the bottom is quite helpful as well. 

 

Regards, 

 

Jesse Wilkins

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