Open Standards are available for all to read and implement.

Important benefits of Open Standards:

• improves ease and capability to interoperate with valuable existing systems
• enables long term investment
• increases return on investment (ROI)
• increases flexibility to choose between different suppliers
• competion between suppliers increases the quality of the standard and the implementation(s)

"The Semantic Web is a web of data. There is a lot of data we all use every day, and its not part of the web. I can see my bank statements on the web, and my photographs, and I can see my appointments in a calendar. But can I see my photos in a calendar to see what I was doing when I took them? Can I see bank statement lines in a calendar? Why not? Because we don't have a web of data. Because data is controlled by applications, and each application keeps it to itself. The Semantic Web is about two things. It is about common formats for interchange of data, where on the original Web we only had interchange of documents. Also it is about language for recording how the data relates to real world objects. That allows a person, or a machine, to start off in one database, and then move through an unending set of databases which are connected not by wires but by being about the same thing." -- W3C Semantic Web Activity homepage

Aduna's role

We're working hard to spark and lead the emerging Semantic Web by delivering high quality software (applications, platform, server software, tool kits, services and technology) for end users, business engineers, enterprise developers and embedded software developers, based on Open Standards such as RDF, SPARQL, XML and URIs. Read more...