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There are a couple of general introductory articles on ODA: 

    [Ansen] Debra Ansen, "Document architecture standards evolution.
    (Office Document Architecture for structuring and encoding
    documents)," AT & T Technical Journal, vol. 68 no. 4, July-August
    1989,  p. 33-55.

    [Dawson] Frank Dawson and Fran Nielsen, "ODA and document
    interchange. (Office Document Architecture standard)", UNIX Review, 
    vol. 8, no. 3, March 1990,  p. 50-57.

    [Hunter]  Roy Hunter, Per Kaijser and Frances H. Nielsen, "ODA: a
    document architecture for open systems. (Office Document
    Architecture)", Computer Communications, vol. 12, no. 2, April 1989,
    p69-80.

An brief description is available to people who brought up all of the
Andrew installation from the X tape by typing "help oda".

As to its place in the world, there is a technical report by Bormann and
Bormann at the Technical University of Berlin on Open Document Standards
which talks about many things, including ODA.  Sorry, I don't have a
better reference for that document.

Of course, my favorite discussion about ODA is in my book. We have an
introduction to ODA, a discussion of its use and an evaluation of its
implementation.

    Jonathan Rosenberg, Mark Sherman, Ann Marks and Jaap Akkerhuis,
    "Multi-media document translation: ODA and the EXPRES project,"
    Springer-Verlag (New York, New York) 1991
    ISBN# 0-387-97397-4  (U.S.),
    ISBN# 3-540-97397-4  (Europe)

It should be available Oct 19 , 1990* from your favorite Springer
outlet, or from Eureka Software. 

			-Mark


*Yes, it is copyright 1991, and available in 1990.