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The Next Millennium Document Format

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Most of today's leading document formats have their roots in the eighties. Their design was built upon requirements of these days: to represent the document state on one single machine or to exchange a document by floppy disc or modem. Often designed for a single purpose far narrower than their current usage. New features were often accomplished by workarounds. For example, change-tracking of any office format does not track a defined interoperable change. Only the earlier state of the changed area is stored, to be swapped back in case of rejection. Nowadays, with the rise of mobile devices, online collaboration is ubiquitous and creates challenges when dealing with documents designed for an environment from the eighties.
In this paper, we lay out a concept how to evolve a new document format that allows not only collaboration, but responsiveness and interoperability by design.

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DocEng '19: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2019
September 2019
254 pages
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DOI:10.1145/3342558
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  1. Agile standardization
  2. Collaborative editing
  3. Document repositories deduplication
  4. Document synchronization
  5. Document versioning
  6. Interoperable Layout

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