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- Open Standards - What is a standard, what is an open standard, and why use open standards on the Internet.
- Software Standards versus Protocol Standards - How open standards may help mitigate or prevent "customer lock-in" strategies.
- Open Standards Repository - Archive of standards relevant to the Open Source community, including licenses, public standards, protocols, RFCs.
- Open Source versus Open Standards - Draws a distinction between open source advocacies and the promotion of public standards, warning against the confusion of these two initiatives.
- Build Systems, Not Companies, on Open Standards - Without standards, every job is a one-off, and vendor lock-in is assured after the first project. Open standards are the beating heart of e-Business, without which concepts like intranets and business-to-business commerce would not be practical on a mass scale.
- Robots.net: Is Sony's OPEN-R Really Open? - OPEN-R has been touted by Sony for nearly two years as an open standard for robotics development however information from Sony on OPEN-R, other than press releases, is difficult to find.
- Open Design Alliance - An association of CAD customers and vendors committed to promoting open, industry-standard formats for the exchange of CAD data. Hisotry, members, FAQ, and published papers.
- Open Standards: Principles and Practice - Illustrates the principles behind format standardization and the practice of promoting formats interoperability.
- Streaming media: A case for open standards - Benefits of the development of open specifications for audio and video formats. By Rich Mavrogeanes.
- Business Case for Open Standards - Paper investigating economical issues related to the diffusion of public standards.
Wikipedia Articles
- Translation Memory eXchange - TMX (Translation Memory eXchange) is an open XML standard for the exchange of translation memory data created by computer-aided translation and localization tools. TMX is developed and maintained by OSCAROSCAR - Open Standards for Container/Content Allowing Re-use (Open Standards for Container/Content Allowing Re-use), a special interest group of LISALISA - Localization Industry Standards Association (Localization Industry Standards Association).
- Initiative For Open Authentication - Initiative for Open Authentication (OATH) is an industry-wide collaboration to develop an open reference architecture using open standards to promote the adoption of strong authentication. It has close to thirty coordinating and contributing members and is proposing standards for a variety of authentication technologies, with the aim of lowering costs and simplifying their use.
- Directory of Open Access Journals - The Directory of Open Access Journals or DOAJ, lists open access journals, scientific and scholarly journals that meet high quality standards by exercising peer-review or editorial quality control and are free to all from the time of publication based on the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open accessBOAI definition of open access. Because open ...
- Open Mobile Alliance - The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) is a standards body which develops open standards for the mobile phone industry.
- Open Geospatial Consortium - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international voluntary consensus standards organization. In the OGC, more than 330 commercial, governmental, nonprofit and research organizations worldwide collaborate in an open consensus process encouraging development and implementation of standards for geospatial content and services, GIS data processing and exchange.