Patrick Durusau is an editor, document-representation standards expert and lawyer. He has been the co-chair and co-editor of the OASIS

OpenDocument The Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF), also known as OpenDocument, is an open file format for word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations and graphics and using ZIP-compressed XML files. It was developed wi ...

Format (initially sponsored by Sun Microsystems) and editor of the equivalent ISO International Standard, the editor and technical lead for the

Open Scripture Information Standard Open Scripture Information Standard (OSIS) is an XML application (or schema), that defines tags for marking up Bibles, theological commentaries, and other related literature. Description The schema is very similar to that of the Text Encoding ...

, convenor of the ISO

Topic Maps A topic map is a standard for the representation and interchange of knowledge, with an emphasis on the findability of information. Topic maps were originally developed in the late 1990s as a way to represent back-of-the-book index structures ...

standards group and editor of some of the produced standards, and was an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Library of Information and Library Science, UIUC. He was Director of Research and Development for the Society of Biblical Literature from 2000 to 2006. He is the author of ''High places in cyberspace''. Durusau worked as a trial lawyer in Louisiana for ten years, including defending death-row case on appeal. He contributed material to the Indigo Book of legal citation. He was recognized as an OASIS Distinguished Contributor in 2015. In the controversial

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standardization of Microsoft's ECMA Open Office XML, seen by many as to some extent a rival to the Sun/IBM-sponsored OASIS

format, Durusau called for a "co-evolutionary" approach, rather than unification or harmonization.

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