Monday, July 2, 2007

Norway Mandates Open Document Format (ODF) Norway's Minister of Government Administration and Reform, also Minister of IT, Ms Heidi Grande Roys, in a press announcement on Friday announced that with the launch of the Norwegian Government's interoperability framework, called Referansekatalog for IT-standarder), the Norwegian government takes "the first step towards a public sector without vendor fixation." The Norwegian government goes ahead and mandates a set of document formats standards: ODF is mandated for document exchange and downloads of editable documents. PDF is mandated for publication of static documents on the web. UTF-8 (ISO/IEC 10646) is mandated as a universal character set standard, to be used in web publications, connections to ... databases, and all other textual exchange and archiving. More at GotzeBlogged: Norwegians Launch Interoperability Framework, Mandate ODF I have some HTML/web problem with some Norwegian letters, like an o with a slash through it, check Biographic information about Norway's Minister of Government Administration and Reform. The phrase "a public sector without vendor fixation" captures an admirable orientation where clearly defined requirements would lead to better selections, and possibly some economic savings in software or hardware for their government. 9:46:10 PM    comment []

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