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European Interoperability Framework 2.0

Dec

2010

This week, the European Commission announced an updated interoperability policy in the EU. The Commission has committed itself to adopt a Communication that introduces the European Interoperability Strategy (EIS) and an update to the European Interoperability Framework (EIF), “two key documents that promote interoperability among public administrations”, part of EUs Digital Agenda. I have followed, and been part of, the EU work on interoperability since the early days. I worked with the Bangemann Report during my PhD research. In the late 1990s, I worked for the Swedish government, and ...

Next: Canada, US, and Iceland

Jul

2009

As indicated in a 140 char note on Twitter, I’m leaving Europe. For a month, that is. I am going on a flight/roadtrip, part work, part vacation. Locationwise roughly as follows: Toronto from July 17th to 25th. Washington, DC from July 26th to 31st. Ottawa from July 31st to August 6th. Boston from August 7th to 14th. oh, and then a stopover in Iceland: ReykjavÃk from August 14th to 18th. Along the way I will attend The Open Group’s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in ...

Not on behalf of me

Mar

2008

Around luchtime today, Danish Standards sent out a press announcement. I just found the English version: Danish Standards will change Danish vote: “On behalf of Denmark, Danish Standards has decided to change the vote on ISO/IEC DIS 29500 OOXML from ‘Disapproval with comments’ to a vote of ‘Approval’.” It is worth noting that the S142-U34 committee’s final recommendation to Danish Standards does not provide consensus on a change of the original Danish vote. That is made clear in a letter (in Danish) to Danish Standards ...

Good Enough Standards? No Way 4

Jan

2008

Two of my students (Michael and SÃ¸ren) did an interesting small project about the “document format war” in december, and we had a good discussion at the exam here this week. They’d interviewed three key actors in the Danish OpenXML/ODF-debate, and presented a very decent, if slightly biased, analysis. But bias seem to be the menu of the day everywhere in the document debates. Burton Group’s Whatâ€™s Up, .DOC? ODF, OOXML, and the Revolutionary Implications of XML in Productivity Applications was bashed for being biased. ...