Sachverständige skizzierten im Bundestag Möglichkeiten zur Förderung freier Software etwa im Vergaberecht, faktische Behinderungen durch Verwaltungsvorgaben zum Dokumentenaustausch und die Bedeutung offener Standards.
Roughly the specification consists of 2 parts: 1. A schema (in essence DCAT) specifying a serialization of Dataset information, and 2. A protocol / API for getting this information from a compliant data catalogue site.
Every time the Microsoft Office team pushes a comment on the wire, there is another pledge for interoperability. It has been so common for the last few years that if you haven't actually watched what it might mean, pretty much OOXML is synonym with interoperability. (Stéphane Rodriguez, May 2010)
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