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Project NemFORM

Feb

2010

The Danish Government Business Reference Model - FORM (in Danish) – is an overview of what the Danish public administration does, which services it provides, and which legislation that regulates these services. I have been ‘playing around’ with the dataset FORM makes up. In the blog menu, you will find links to pages about Project NemFORM. To demonstrate how the reference model can be used, I have created this simple application (autosuggesting services; reference), which can also be used on a mobile device (tested on Android ...

Hiser in Danish, and now in English

Mar

2007

I wrote a Danish article in Version2 published yesterday. Here is my translation: Danish Document Controversy Raises International Concerns OpenDocument Foudation is very concerned about the development in Denmark. Moreover, the organisation is readying a plugin that will make it even easier to use the ODF-format. John GÃ¸tze The awareness of the political initiatives around the usage of open standards reaches beyond Denmark. “Denmark needs a winning attitude, but this policy is appeasement”, comments Sam Hiser, Director of Business Affairs in OpenDocument Foundation, an organization ...

Get the ODF Monograph

Mar

2007

UPGRADE, the European Journal for the Informatics Professional, has just published an Open Document Format Monograph. The monograph is published on behalf of CEPIS by NovÃ¡tica (ATI, Spain), in English and in Spanish. The English version is available online: download as PDF, see content and summaries. The Spanish version is out in print and soon online. I warmly recommend the monograph’s articles. I’m of course pleased about my contribution (announced earlier), but recommend reading several of the others first. These are the articles: OpenDocument Standard ...

Mandatory Open Standards in Denmark 2

Feb

2007

I’d be interested in the international reactions to this piece of news: On Friday, the Danish Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Helge Sander, made a press announcement (Danish) about his plan for following up on the Parliament Resolution 8 months ago. The implementation plan is presented in a report which suggests that “open standards should be implemented gradually by making it mandatory for the public sector to use a number of open standards when this becomes technically feasible”. The report identifies an initial sets ...