tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1303975371294158246.post2634217918893751741..comments2024-03-11T10:02:17.638+00:00Comments on Digital Curation Blog: Open Office as a document migration on demand tool- againGraham Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394604548989689232noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1303975371294158246.post-84063868782563300232009-02-16T09:02:00.000+00:002009-02-16T09:02:00.000+00:00Isn't the decline in development engagement with O...Isn't the decline in development engagement with OO in part just indicative of the fact that OO has reached a level where it is now a serious competitor against other software products? And does the decline really mean it won't continue to be useful over the longer term? I don't think so. a) it will remain useful for formats it currently supports, and b) as a software package, it's sufficiently accessible that the preservation community could, if they wish, 'sponsor' ongoing development activities to support new or alternative formats - which is what Chris suggests in part of his post. This would seem a logical activity - seize on currently available tools and tailor them to our purposes, rather than start from scratch.Maureenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10068123615764318937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1303975371294158246.post-22676583288397045902009-02-14T21:30:00.000+00:002009-02-14T21:30:00.000+00:00You are probably aware of Docvert. I've used a sim...You are probably aware of <A HREF="http://holloway.co.nz/docvert/" REL="nofollow">Docvert</A>. I've used a similar approach (since I wasn't aware of Docvert back then) and integrated the <A HREF="http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/TEI_OpenOffice_Package" REL="nofollow">TEI tools for OpenOffice</A> to create TEI files from MS Word.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15502667011036981121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1303975371294158246.post-46084187397690499322009-02-14T17:23:00.000+00:002009-02-14T17:23:00.000+00:00An important issue regarding Open Office, though, ...An important issue regarding Open Office, though, is whether developer support for it will continue. If it doesn't, then it will become too out of date to be useful in a few years.<BR/><BR/>I ran across a reference to this problem at the Coding Horror site (<BR/>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001215.html), where he linked to this site (http://www.gnome.org/~michael/blog/ooo-commit-stats-2008.html) on the developer stats for Open Office:<BR/><BR/>"Crude as they are - the statistics show a picture of slow disengagement by Sun, combined with a spectacular lack of growth in the developer community. In a healthy project we would expect to see a large number of volunteer developers involved, in addition - we would expect to see a large number of peer companies contributing to the common code pool; we do not see this in OpenOffice.org. Indeed, quite the opposite we appear to have the lowest number of active developers on OO.o since records began: 24, this contrasts negatively with Linux's recent low of 160+. Even spun in the most positive way, OO.o is at best stagnating from a development perspective. "brownstudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333599990012361188noreply@blogger.com