Re: [office] Proposal for Advanced Document CollaborationSubcommittee

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Rob,

Just came up for air and saw your post.

Do you think the charter should mention the role of meta-data in
revisions?

Just so they can tend to that while working on pure change tracking sort
of issues? 

And that might attract people interested in the annotation side of
document work as well. 

Don't want it to get too broad but thought that might be a useful
addition.

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 12:24 -0400, robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
> For discussion on the list. I know that many/most of us are heads-down on 
> the ODF 1.2 endgame right now.  But I have heard from a number of 
> individuals who are interested in starting work immediately to refine the 
> DeltaXML change tracking proposal.  Since they are willing to join the TC, 
> and this is a priority area for them, I think it would be a good idea to 
> create a SC where this work could be advanced at its own pace, 
> independently of our work on ODF 1.2.
> 
> Also, in order to avoid a proliferation of subcommittees, I've written the 
> scope broadly enough to encompass some adjacent areas within the "advanced 
> collaboration" sphere, especially areas that I know are of interest to one 
> or more members of the TC.
> 
> I am willing to chair the SC, but I also would be more than happy to yield 
> to a suitable alternative volunteer.
> 
> -Rob
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Name
> ----
> Advanced Document Collaboration Subcommittee (slug = 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 and 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 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.
> 
> 
> List of Deliverables
> --------------------
> 
> 1. A draft specification for change tracking, including Relax NG schema's 
> (target Jan 31th, 2011)
> 
> 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 
> 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
> -----
> 
> TBD
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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