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An EC decision on Oct. 31, 2014 designates OASIS UBL 2.1 a referable standard
Article 1 (EC Decision) "Universal Business Language version 2.1 developed by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards is eligible for referencing in public procurement…
NEWSCreated: 07/11/2014Updated Date: 07/11/2014
EuroVoc freely available via the EU Open Data Portal
EuroVoc, the EU's multilingual thesaurus, was recently made directly downloadable from the EU Open Data Portal. In the past, EuroVoc was already available under an open licence. However, to download…
NEWSCreated: 31/03/2014Updated Date: 27/01/2020
NL – Awareness around Standard Business Reporting is growing
A recent survey shows that Dutch accountants and intermediaries are becoming aware of the Standard Business Reporting (SBR) specification. This is much needed, as Dutch Government decided that as from…
NEWSCreated: 27/03/2012Updated Date: 27/03/2012
DE: Gummersbach: 'Open source desktops much easier to manage'
Easier management is one of the main reasons for the German city of Gummersbach to switch its almost 350 PCs to the open source operating system GNU/Linux, a move that began already four years ago…
NEWSCreated: 28/09/2011Updated Date: 28/09/2011
ES: Guidelines to help local administrations procure open source
A guide aiming to help local governmental organisations to improve their IT procurement, was made public yesterday in Madrid. "This will help make it technically, legally and procedurally feasible for…
NEWSCreated: 21/10/2010Updated Date: 21/10/2010
Public Review of UBL 2.1 under way
The OASIS consortium has started the public review of revision 2.1 of the Universal Business Language (UBL), open until 2010-11-24. The Universal Business Language is designed to provide a universally…
NEWSCreated: 13/10/2010Updated Date: 13/10/2010
Mind the Lexical Gap
The Publications Office is holding a two-day conference in November to present the latest developments on the multilingual EuroVoc thesaurus. EuroVoc Conference 18-19 November 2010Jean Monnet Building…
NEWSCreated: 06/10/2010Updated Date: 06/10/2010
CH: Solothurn hints it will not scrap open source desktop
The Swiss canton of Solothurn on Monday suggested it will not scrap its open source plans. However, it wants to be able to also use proprietary desktop and email solutions. "The IT strategy, based on…
NEWSCreated: 21/09/2010Updated Date: 21/09/2010
FI: Over a hundred schools using open source
More than a hundred schools across Finland are using open source for all of their desktop PCs, according to Opinsys, an open source services provider. The company assists ninety schools in 28…
NEWSCreated: 13/05/2010Updated Date: 13/05/2010
DK: Competition authority wants EC's take on office market competition
The Danish Competition Authority wants to discuss with the European Commission how to enhance competition in the market for office software. It thinks the Danish public sector is too small to do this…
NEWSCreated: 18/09/2009Updated Date: 18/09/2009
DE: IT budget of Foreign Ministry small in comparison, due to open source
The use of open source by Germany's Foreign Ministry's makes its IT budget small in comparison with that of similar organisations, says Linbit, an Austrian provider of open source IT services. "It's…
NEWSCreated: 31/01/2009Updated Date: 31/01/2009
Transport: Car registration network a frontrunner in information sharing
EUCARIS, the European Car and Driving Licence Information System and winner of the 2008 iG 2.0 award, has joined SEMIC.EU as a partner project. Starting from a base of five countries, the system has…
NEWSCreated: 24/10/2008Updated Date: 24/10/2008