Re: [office] Proposal for Advanced Document Collaboration Subcommittee

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net> wrote on 11/04/2010 01:24:18 PM:

> Re: [office] Proposal for Advanced Document Collaboration Subcommittee
> 
> Rob,
> 
> Just came up for air and saw your post.
> 
> Do you think the charter should mention the role of meta-data in
> revisions?
> 

I think revisions should consider content, styles and metadata.  These are 
three planes of data in an ODF document.  If we defined a macro language 
we might even talk about a 4th plane, of behavior.  In any case, I agree 
this metadata should be considered in this work.  But I'm indifferent to 
whether we want to get to that level of detail in the charter.

> 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. 
>

Maybe I'm missing something.  Are you talking about change tracking of 
documents where the change happens to be or include a change in metadata? 
Or are you talking about a different scenario involving annotations?

-Rob

 
> 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
> > 
> > 
> 
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> > 
> > 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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