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Collaboration: Open Standards that will Drive the Future of Collaboration
At Innovate 2012 conference, IBM identified 10 Open Standards important to collaboration technologies in the areas of social, web, cloud and mobile that they think will have a big impact.
Darryl Taft, senior editor at Ziff-Davis, recently published IBM’s top ten Open Standards list on Eweek:
Linked Data and the Semantic Web – Best practices for linking, sharing and interconnecting data and information with URIs and RDF.
Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) – Specifications for sharing of data with software lifecycle tools
HTML5 – Next-generation HTML markup language.
OpenSocial – An open specification for allowing untrusted and partially untrusted components to run in a web application. Originally developed by Google and MySpace, targeting the needs of social networking applications.
OAuth – An open standard for authorization. It allows a user to grant someone else to access specific pieces of private information without disclossing full access permissions.
Activity Streams – Open Specification for handling activity streams used in social web applications, like Facebook Newsfeed.
TOSCA (Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications) – Creates standards for deploying web applications in the cloud
Cloud Standards Customer Council – End-user advocacy group, helping end-user have a voice in the development of cloud standards
W3C Social Business Community Group – Creates open standards for social business use cases
OpenStack – Creates open standards for cloud computing and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Angel Diaz, VP Software standards at IBM, said when asked about the importance of Open Standards for collaboration: “Look at history. Productivity cyles have occurred as a result of technology breakthroughs which were paired with good business insightbut also open standards. Think of the mainframe. Think of distributed sytems. Think of the web and eBusiness. Behind each of those innovations has been the thread of standards. Standards increase the market. They accelerate the ability for people to participate and accelerate the access. Now, with social business, you’re looking at the confluence of social networking, analytics, cloud and mobile. All of these things coming together, allowing people to rethink and reinvent how they do business.Standards is going to make it go even faster.”
