Subcommittee Creation for Advanced Document Collaboration

The following request has been submitted to the OASIS TC Administrator on 30/11/2010:

                          

                                                    
                                                        Submitter's Name
                                                    
                                               

                                               

                                                     
                                                    
                                                        Rob Weir
                                                    
                                               

                                                    
                                                        TC Name
                                                    
                                               

                                               

                                                     
                                                    
                                                        ODF TC
                                                    
                                               

                                                    
                                                        TC Email Address
                                                    
                                               

                                               

                                                     
                                                    
                                                        
                                                    
                                               

                                                    
                                                        Subcommittee Name
                                                    
                                               

                                               

                                                     
                                                    
                                                        Advanced Document Collaboration
                                                    
                                               

                                                    
                                                        Subcommittee Email List Name
                                                    
                                               

                                               

                                                     
                                                    
                                                        office-collab
                                                    
                                               

                                                    
                                                        Statement of Purpose
                                                    
                                               

                                               

                                                     
                                                    
                                                        Many ODF documents do not involve collaboration.  They are created by a 

single user, edited by a single user, and then perhaps presented or shared 

with multiple users, or maybe even just converted to PDF for distribution.

However, collaboration-based document scenarios are also common, including 

review and comment, change tracking as well as emerging work in real-time 

collaborative editing, in-context document collaboration, persistence of 

structured document fragments, and so on.

In order to bring together technical experts in these areas, and for them 

to evaluate trends, investigate opportunities and draft enhancements to 

ODF in these areas, we are proposing a dedicated subcommittee for this 

topic.

The initial and highest priority for the Subcommittee will be change 

tracking.  Reliable and user friendly revision management is critical for 

professional document workflows in corporate and public sector 

environments, and as such an important feature of Open Document Format. 

The SC is asked to prepare a draft specification of a markup vocabulary 

that can accurately describe any incremental change to the content and 

structure of documents - typically made in multiple editing sessions by 

different authors.

                                                    
                                               

                                                    
                                                        Deliverables
                                                    
                                               

                                               

                                                     
                                                    
                                                        1. A draft specification for change tracking, including Relax NG schema

2. A description on how to apply change tracking markup to the various 

versions of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) as a host format.

3. A set of test documents that will allow implementers to validate their 

change tracking implementations.

4. A document that describes in detail how the existing change tracking 

mechanism in ODF can be converted to the new markup.

5. Other proposals, draft specifications and in-scope work related to the 

subcommittee's Purpose.

                                                    
                                               

                                                    
                                                        Chair
                                                    
                                               

                                               

                                                     
                                                    
                                                        Robin LaFontaine
                                                    
                                               

                                                    
                                                        Approval Link
                                                    
                                               

                                               

                                                     
                                                    
                                                        http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office/ballot.php?id=1967
                                                    
                                               

Thank you for your request. We will schedule the QC review shortly. You can follow the progress at: 

http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/TCADMIN

The Standards Development team.