<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 4:50 AM, Charles Schweik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu" target="_blank">cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>GeoForAll colleagues who teach: </div><div><br></div><div>In case it is useful, I wrote an open access teaching case on the importance of open standards you can find here [1]. It isn't about geospatial data, but it was a really interesting case on open data formats in word processing (.ODT and Word) between the US state of Massachusetts and Microsoft that might be useful for your classes.</div></blockquote><div><br>Interesting document, I recommend reading it, although the political
relations described there might be quite confusing for the international
community.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>If anyone reads it and finds that I got anything wrong (I don't think I did) -- please let me know! </div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">At the very beginning you say:<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>"This case more specifically also exposes the student to [...] open data, open data standards (XML), the idea of systems interoperability..."<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">which suggests that open standard equals XML which is not true. Open standard does not have to be XML and XML is not necessary an open standard as OOXML case shows (another interesting reading on that topic is on Joinup [1]).<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Also the lesson/case would be stronger, in my opinion, if the title of the PDF wouldn't be "Microsoft Word - 2013-6A-Case-SchweikMiller.docx".<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Vaclav<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>[1] <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/elibrary/case/complex-singularity-versus-openness">https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/elibrary/case/complex-singularity-versus-openness</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>