Research area

This area lists significant papers in the area of open digital standards.

Open standards in e-Government

• Electronic Government: Perspectives and Pitfalls of Online Administrative Procedure, Georg Jakob, University of Salzburg, Department for Law and Informatics, September 2002 (36th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’03))

• Open Documents and Democracy: A Political Basis for Open Document Standards, DeNardis, Laura; Tam, Eric, Yale 2007

• Road map for Future Innovation, Berkman Center, 2005

• Open Technologies: Catalyst for transformation, Jeffrey A. Kaplan, APDIP e-Note 7, 2006

Open Standards and Open Source

• FLOSSPOLS, An Economic Basis for Open Standards , Rishab Ghosh, Maastricht 2005
• Free/Open Source Software: Open Standards Nah Soo Hoe, New Delhi: IOSN, 2006

Evaluation of standard bodies and standards: dimensions of openness

• Evaluation of Ten Standard Setting Organizations with Regard to Open Standards, Per Andersen, IDC special report prepared for IT- og Telestyrelsen, January 2008. This report compares standard organizations based on Ken Krechmer's criteria what constitutes openness in standardization.

• Requirements of open standards Ken Krechmer, 2006. While Krechmer promotes a broad and permissive definition of open standards he evaluates the market and standard bodies against his criteria list. On the most critical dimension, patents, Krechmer seems to prefer a market specific negotiation process. Krechmer also maps Perens criteria list against his own and claims identity of dimensions while disregarding the more strict requirements level.

• Open Standards - Principles and Practice, Bruce Perens

• Defining "Free and Open Standard", Pieter Hintjens

Interoperability strategies

• New York State Electronic Documents Report to the Governor and Legislature: CIO/OFT has published the electronic documents report required by statute, "A Strategy for Openness: Enhancing E-Records Access in New York State."

• UN APDIP Government Interoperability Framework - IBM, Oracle, UNDP-APDIP and the International Open Source Network (IOSN) create strategies for adopting open standards and related services in Asia-Pacific countries.

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