[ossig] ODF a National Standard in Korea

[Hasannudin Saidin]

From: http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2007/11/odf-a-national-.html


ODF a National Standard in Korea


South_korea_flagIf you haven't heard already, ODF is a National Standard in
South Korea for a couple of months now. See the news linked below (also
transcribed) -- Ditesh, urr... would you be able to translate to English?


[Update 14 Nov 2007: I just appended the English translation after the
piece in Korean below. Thanks to YH Woo for the translation.]


The proposal for ODF to be accepted as a Malaysian Standard by SIRIM,
Department of Standards Malaysia and ultimately the Minister of Science,
Technology & Innovation is dormant for more than a year now. Four months
after the Malaysian proposal went to sleep, Italy made ODF a National
Standard. Eight months after that, Korea has followed suit. With this
Korean news, perhaps the Malaysian proposal will be awakened.


The Korean news (thanks to my colleague ,YH Woo):


http://www.dt.co.kr/contents.html?article_no=2007082802010760600004


[English translation below:]


ODF ‘office document’ established as KS


Unique in Korea… To influence document standard in public institutions


Development into open process
Approved as ISO standard in May 2006


August 28, 2007


Open document format (ODF) has been approved as national standard (KS)
office document format.


On August 27, Korea Agency for Technology and Standards announced it
accepted ODF as national standard (KS). Office application such as word
processor, spreadsheet, presentation has been accepted as document format
for the first time. Following KS establishment, ODF now stands as the
national standard.


Although ODF is approved as KS, it is not compulsory for users.
Nonetheless, experts regard it as significant for it is the only KS in
office document format. Henceforth it could be influential in public
institutions’ choice of document standard.


The purpose of XML-based ODF is for document contents to become independent
from specified application or vendor’s file format. Hence open and
transparent standardization process through opinions from worldwide user
community is being developed and its position has strengthened since its
official approval from ISO, international organization for standards, as
file format standard.


At the time, 23 countries with voting rights including Korea all voted in
favor, thus it was approved as ODF without any objection.


According to an official at Korea Agency for Technology and Standards, “ODF
was approved as ISO standard for it realizes open mind with participation
of various vendors and it is not subordinated to a specific vendor. These
reason also worked for the approval as KS.”


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