The Foundation for Interoperability

Open Data Standards ease the interoperability of information and its coordination on the internet.

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Good Reasons for Open Data Standards

Independence

1 Open Data Standards is a venue for innovation and refinement of standards. Because of its global and open approach of making standards widely accessible, diverse users can collaborate on uniform definitions.

Free and Public

2 All definitions are open and available for free. Anyone can share, download, copy and distribute them for an unlimited time. The codes can be adopted and incorporated for free into any commercial or non commercial project.

Interoperability

3 The issued codes provide a broad consensus over the meaning of certain information. This is the foundation for making it easier to exchange and convert data between different parties and different IT systems.

Coordination

4 The Open Data Standards Foundation is working with partners on a service that will allow anyone to identify objects and to exchange common sense information on them. The codes form a framework for this.

Creating shared meaning for information.