{"id":687,"date":"2012-11-21T09:42:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T09:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=687"},"modified":"2013-02-24T12:48:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T12:48:39","slug":"portugal-adopts-odf-as-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=687","title":{"rendered":"Portugal adopts ODF as standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2012\/11\/ODF_textdocument_48x48.png\" alt=\"ODF file icon\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-689\" \/>In a list of open standard for use by public authorities, the Portuguese government is prescribing <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OpenDocument\">Open Document Format (ODF)<\/a> as the sole format for editable documents, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heise.de\/open\/meldung\/Portugal-ODF-als-Standard-in-Behoerden-1753826.html\">according to Germany&#8217;s Heise IT news site<\/a>, commenting on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esop.pt\/portugal-publishes-open-standards-catalogodf-pdf-and-several-other-standards-are-mandatory\/\">report<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esop.pt\/\">ESOP<\/a>, the Portuguese Open Source Business Association. The list is part of a body of rules to ensure interoperability. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Open Standards Law (Law 36\/2011 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esop.pt\/uploads\/2011\/10\/OpenStandardsPT.pdf\">unofficial translation here<\/a>) passed in summer last year obliges the Portuguese authorities to use open standards wherever possible.<\/p>\n<p>ODF was initially the XML-based document format for the OpenOffice.org productivity suite and subsequently was adopted as an international standard, first with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oasis-open.org\/\">OASIS<\/a> and later with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iso.org\/iso\/home.html\">ISO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Further permitted open standards are PDF, XML, XMPP, IMAP, SMTP, CALDAV and LDAP. The initiative to establish open standards in the public sector is part of a programme which should save the administration &euro;500 mn. per year.<\/p>\n<p>ESOP now hopes that the implementation of open standards in Portugal contributes to a better functioning IT market with more competition, lower prices and new opportunities for local SMEs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a list of open standard for use by public authorities, the Portuguese government is prescribing Open Document Format (ODF) as the sole format for editable documents, according to Germany&#8217;s Heise IT news site, commenting on a report from ESOP, the Portuguese Open Source Business Association. The list is part of a body of rules [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,30],"tags":[24,12,11],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-software","category-open-standards","tag-odf","tag-open-source","tag-open-standards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}