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Competence Center ELAN Fraunhofer FOKUS


OOXML Validation and Document Test LibraryTowards Document Interoperability

Dr. Klaus-Peter Eckert

Document Interoperability Initiative DIIBrusselsNovember 12th, 2009

2© Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin


Agenda

Fraunhofer and the FOKUS competence center ELAN

FOKUS document interoperability lab

– Document and test library

– Online validator

– White paper on document interoperability

Document and test library

– Document standards

– Translation between standards

– Translation and conformity

– Document categories

Document validation

– Types of document conformance

– Validating semantic constraints



The FOKUS Competence Center ELANInteroperability and Innovation – Future of eGovernment



Fraunhofer in Germany

At present Fraunhofer maintains

80 research units

including 57 Fraunhofer institutes

at over 40 different locations

with a staff of 15.000 scientists & engineers

1.3 billion € annual budget



Competence Center ELAN

Cooperative and process-oriented eGovernment

Our Mission:

– One-Stop-Government

– Interoperability

– Innovative und secure architectures

– Infrastructures and business models at the interface to state and public administrations

Our Experience: eGovernment projects since 1995

– On federal, state and communal level

– International: EU (eTEN, IST), Japan, Brazil…

Facts & Figures: Competence Center ELAN operating since July 2004

– Approx. 50 employees

– More than 50 partners from industry and administration



From cradle to grave... “Forms, Forms, Forms“ & „ Standards, Standards, Standards“….



OOXML Validation and Document Test Library Document Interoperability Lab



Document Interoperability Lab in a nutshell

Fraunhofer FOKUS has initiated its Document Interoperability Lab

http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/go/is29500-validation

The lab is going to test the validity of documents regarding the document-standard ISO/IEC 29500 known as Office Open XML.

A document and test library consisting of valid template documents will be offered. Word processing, presentation as well as spreadsheet documents belonging to selected application domains and document categories can be retrieved and uploaded.

The online validator office-o-tron, developed by Alex Brown, is accessible via the document and test library. Fraunhofer FOKUS contributes to the definition of conformance rules.

Fraunhofer FOKUS has published a white paper on interoperability between ODF and OOXML, extending the initial DIN contribution to ISO SC34 WG5http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/go/wpdocinterop-en



Document Test Library in a nutshell

Main goals:

– Create a suite of documents for testing and verifying IS29500 interoperability

Create and maintain web site for document repository

– Up-/download documents

– Assign category tags to documents

– Maintain category tags

– Validate documents considering IS29500 and document categories

The document and test library is available at http://www.is29500-interoperability.com



IS29500 Validator in a nutshell

Main goals:

– Develop a tool to validate schema, package conventions and „semantic“ properties and categories of documents considering IS29500

Contribute to the open source project Office-o-tron that develops and maintains an online validation tool

– Define compliance rules

– Evaluate compliance rules

– Produce comprehensible error messages

– Accessible for users via the document library web page

Office-o-tron project will be lead by Griffin Brown Digital Publishing Ltd. and hosted by Fraunhofer FOKUS


http://www.griffinbrown.co.uk/


OOXML Validation and Document Test LibraryDocument Test Library – Towards Document Categories



Why should a document format be standardized?What is the document?

Different representations

of a document exist

What is „the“ document?

What is „the“ standard?



Why should a document format be standardized?Continued

Different document

standards exist

Standards depend

on tasks



Reasons for translation of document formats

ISO 26300

ODF

ISO 29500

OOXML



Prerequisites for the translation of document formats

ISO 26300

ODF

ISO 29500

OOXML

Translation rules are defined

on the document standard

Translation rules are executed

on documents (instances)

Translation rules are not

standardized

Translation rules are not

comprehensive



Prerequisites for the translation of documents

ISO 26300

ODF

ISO 29500

OOXML

Translation rules are executed

on documents

Documents have to be

standard conform

Document must not use

extensions of the standards

Documents have to be build

of translatable parts



Document categories

Reduce the complexity and features to be used within documents

Definition of translatable document templates for special purposes

Improve the translatability of documents

Additional conformity tests are necessary – membership in a category



Classification hierarchy – classification example



Document categoriesInitial classification schema

Data Interchange, Data Manipulation (Aggregate/ETL/Cleansing), Financial Statements / Balance Sheets, Forms and Calculators (Expense Report, Input Forms, Invoices, Purchase Orders, Product Selection, etc.), Misc (Faxes, Memos, Stationary, etc.), Pitch Book, Scheduling (Budgets, Schedules, etc.), Stochastic Modelling/Simulation (Factory Floor, Financial, Process Flow, Valuation, etc.), Tracking List (Agenda, Calendar, Inventories, Receipts, Statements, Time Sheet, etc.), ...

– Architecture and Design, Conference Presentation ( aka “keynote” ), Informal, Management Meetings, Note Taking, Photo Book, Pitch Book, Sales Presentation, Self-Running, Signage, Training, ...

Additional attributes (optional, unique)

– Conformance type

– Language

Document type (mandatory, unique)

– Word processing

– Spreadsheets

– Presentation

Application domain (optional, ambiguous)

– Private

– Business

– Academic

– Legal

Category / subcategories (mandatory, ambiguous, type depending)

– Application (EU project app.), Article, Book, Essay, Flyer, Label, Legal Document, Letter, Meeting Notes, Memo, Newsletter, Notes, Outline, Proposal, Research Paper, Report, Résumé, Structured Document/Form, ...

– Application Add-ins, Budgeting (Forecasting/Actuals), Data Analysis,



Sample document categorizationUpload and retrieval

1. Word–Processing Spreadsheet Presentation


Private Business Academic Legal


Private Business Academic Legal

Poster Memo Meeting Note Research-Paper Report Proposal

Resume Essay Book Photo-Book Letter Data …

Spreadsheet Presentation

Private Business Legal

Poster Memo Meeting Note Proposal

Resume Essay Book Photo-Book Letter Data …



Document and Test LibraryHome



Document and Test LibraryLibrary



Document and Test LibraryBrowse



Document and Test LibraryCategories



Document and Test LibrarySearch



Sample presentation documentPhoto book



Sample wordprocessing documentTest document



Document and Test LibraryUpload



Document and test libraryLink to online validator



Online validation using Office-o-tronTest document



Online validation using Office-o-tronTest document (cont.)



Document Test LibraryConclusion

Collection of IS29500 compliant documents

Lib can be used to evaluate document interoperability of different applications

Lib can be used to evaluate translation between document standards

Upload and download of categorized documents

Definition of document categories

Support for different document languages

Close link to IS29500 validator

Challenges

– Different versions of document standards

– Adequate definition of the term „IS29500 compliance“ – what is a valid document?

– Relation between test library (categories) and test suite (features)



Dr. Klaus-Peter [email protected]

Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems

Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 3110589 Berlin, Germany

www.fokus.fraunhofer.de

Thank you !

Any questions ?
