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Germany’s Sovereign Digital Stack Mandates ODF: a Landmark Validation of Open Document Standards
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The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice, welcomes the inclusion of the Open Document Format (ODF) as a mandated standard format in Germany’s Deutschland-Stack, the federal government’s sovereign digital infrastructure framework for all public administrations.
The Stack, published by the German Federal Ministry for Digital and State Modernisation (Bundesministerium für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung), establishes the technical standards for a shared, interoperable and sovereign digital infrastructure serving all Germany’s public administrations. Under the framework’s “Semantic Technologies and Real-Time Analytics” pillar, ODF and PDF/UA are explicitly named as the two mandated document formats, to the exclusion of proprietary alternatives.
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Germany’s federal “Deutschland-Stack” puts Open Document Format at the center of its digital infrastructure plans.
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The framework is published by Germany's Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation, and it covers every level of public administration in the country, from federal government bodies down to states and municipalities.
ODF, or OpenDocument Format, is an XML-based file format for office documents. It covers text files, spreadsheets, charts, and graphical documents. The standard is maintained by OASIS and is also an ISO standard (ISO/IEC 26300), which means it is vendor-neutral and not controlled by any single company.