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Our open standards articles explore the movement to create community-developed, non-proprietary, and open requirements, specifications, guidelines for technologies.

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Setting a standard for digital public goods

Nine-indicator standard aims to promote open source software, data, AI models, standards, and content for a more equitable world.
Lucy Victor Grau Serrat 04 Dec 2020
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How open standards guide us in a world of change

OASIS Open brings open source and standards communities together during this time of crisis to help define a new, collaborative future to benefit all.
Guy Martin 30 May 2020 1 comment
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Celebrating open standards around the world

October 14 is World Standards Day, and to celebrate, Opensource.com is launching a new resource to...
Rikki Endsley (Red Hat) 14 Oct 2016
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The rise of the shareable document

Using open document formats could create a domino effect where more and more work is modified and...
Steven Ovadia 09 Sep 2016 4 comments
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The future of sharing: integrating Pydio and ownCloud

A new open standard supported by the OpenCloudMesh project is a big step toward interoperability.
ben van 't ende 19 May 2016 2 comments
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How an open standard API could revolutionize banking

Open bank data will give us the freedom to access all banks in real time and from a single view,...
Noel Peatfield 30 Apr 2015 1 comment
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You can now petition the European Union to 'fix my document'

Open Forum Europe has initiated an effort to help the European Union (EU) institutions live up to...
Paul Brownell (Red Hat) 03 Feb 2015 2 comments
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Web inventor predicts cultural shift, Apache powers half the Internet, and more

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at an interview with Sir Tim...
Robin Muilwijk 21 Nov 2014

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