About

• Overview
• Contributors
• Architecture
• Milestones
• Licensing model

Overview

As part of Microsoft’s continued commitment to interoperability, Microsoft decided to work with Beihang University and with other partners to create a Translator between UOF and Open XML and provide interoperability between these two formats in both directions

The UOF - Uniform Office Format is an emerging standard, which is being developed by the Chinese Office Software Work Group (COSWG), led by the China Electronics Standard Institute (CESI), the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), major suppliers of Chinese office software suites, and other academic institutions.

Contributors

This project involves several partners:

Beihang

Beihang University, China

BISTU

Beijing Information Science & Technology University, China

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation.

TsingHua

TsingHua University, China.

Litsoft

Litsoft is a member of Lenovo Group.

Architecture

Figure 1: Architecture of UOF Translator

Milestones

Executive Vision Document Sign-off	6/30,2008
Architecture Documentation Sign-off	6/30/2008
Test Documents Sign-off	6/30/2008
Prototype OpenXML to UOF Translator	9/15/2008
Update to Document	9/15/2008
Prototype UOF to OpenXML Translator	10/30/2008
Prototype End User Systems	11/15/2008
Bi-direction Translator	12/15/2008
Development Complete	04/01/2009
System Test complete	05/30/2009
Release/Go-live	05/30/2009

Licensing model

This project is developed and released under a very liberal BSD-like license:

* Copyright (c) 2006, Beihang University, China
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