ODMA
The Open Document Management Alliance ( ODMA ) is an IT consortium for standards in the area of Document Management Systems (DMS ) and editor of the ODMA Specification. Current version on September 17, 1997, the ODMA 2.0 Specification.
With the " Open Document Management API" is defined for DMS clients a uniform interface to access document management systems, using ODMA can be transparent vendor-and product-based use, a corresponding DMS desktop applications such as Microsoft Word or AutoCAD.
ODMA is supported by many large companies and implemented, including IBM, Microsoft, Xerox, and Lotus.