Microsoft announced the new odata.org website at MIX10 this week, continuing their efforts in open standards and interoperability.
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Microsoft Creates New OData.org Website for Open Data Protocol
In order for real communication to happen, especially among people from different regions and dialects (let alone people from different countries and languages altogether), terms have to be clearly defined so that everyone is starting from the same point. The problem with such definitions is that the devil really is in the details.
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Dedication to Open Source and Open Standards Threatened in Leaked EU EIF Document
These days the UK government seems unusually savvy when it comes to technology, open source and open standards. Now they’ve embraced another open movement, that of open data. And they’ve appointed Sir Tim Berners-Lee, father of the World Wide Web, to help.
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Linked Data on the Web – Becoming Reality in the UK
