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Open Standards & Specifications

Repositories hosting open standards and normative specification documents that define protocols, APIs, and interoperability guidelines for software ecosystems.

72 projects

65,201 contributors

$4.7B

OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry makes robust, portable telemetry a built-in feature of cloud-native software. OpenTelemetry provides a single set of APIs, libraries, agents, and collector services to capture distributed traces and metrics from your application. You can analyze them using Prometheus, Jaeger, and other observability tools.

Contributors

25,775

Organizations

5,398

Software value

$304M

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of the global technology infrastructure. CNCF brings together the world’s top developers, end users, and vendors and runs the largest open source developer conferences.

Contributors

12,682

Organizations

3,512

Software value

$3.5B

ONNX

ONNX is an open format built to represent machine learning models. ONNX defines a common set of operators - the building blocks of machine learning and deep learning models - and a common file format to enable AI developers to use models with a variety of frameworks, tools, runtimes, and compilers.

Contributors

8,051

Organizations

1,023

Software value

$51M

RISC-V International

RISC-V is a free and open ISA enabling a new era of processor innovation through open standard collaboration. Born in academia and research, RISC-V ISA delivers a new level of free, extensible software and hardware freedom on architecture, paving the way for the next 50 years of computing design and innovation.

Contributors

3,987

Organizations

947

Software value

$32M

Open Container Initiative (OCI)

An open governance structure for the express purpose of creating open industry standards around container formats and runtime.

Contributors

2,684

Organizations

922

Software value

$43M

Schema.org

Schema.org - schemas and supporting software

Contributors

1,945

Organizations

542

Software value

$168M

Vulkan Validation Layers (VVL)

The Vulkan Validation Layers (VVL) is a collection of validation layers that perform error checking and validation for applications using the Vulkan graphics API. These layers help developers identify and debug issues in their Vulkan applications by monitoring API usage and reporting potential errors, invalid behavior, and performance issues.

Contributors

1,445

Organizations

199

Software value

$27M

CloudEvents

CloudEvents is a specification for describing event data in a common way. CloudEvents seeks to dramatically simplify event declaration and delivery across services, platforms, and beyond! CloudEvents is a new effort and it's still under active development. However, its working group has received a surprising amount of industry interest, ranging from major cloud providers to popular SaaS companies. The specification is now under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Contributors

1,384

Organizations

501

Software value

$4.1M

Blender glTF 2.0 Importer and Exporter

An official Blender add-on that enables importing and exporting 3D content in the glTF 2.0 format, allowing seamless exchange of 3D assets between Blender and other applications that support the glTF standard

Contributors

1,203

Organizations

211

Software value

$876K

Exercism Java Track

Shared metadata for exercism exercises.

Contributors

973

Organizations

125

Software value

$3.4M

SPIRV-Cross

SPIRV-Cross is a tool and library for performing reflection on SPIR-V and converting SPIR-V to other shader languages. It enables translation of SPIR-V shaders into GLSL, HLSL, MSL and other formats while preserving metadata and optimizations.

Contributors

780

Organizations

152

Software value

$11M

Experience Data Model (XDM)

Experience Data Model (XDM) is Adobe's standardized framework for customer experience data, providing common structures and definitions for digital experiences across Adobe Experience Platform and other systems. It enables consistent data representation and interoperability between applications and services.

Contributors

717

Organizations

20

Software value

$6.7M

Test262

Status, process, and documents for ECMA-262

Contributors

691

Organizations

187

Software value

$52M

AppStream

Tools and libraries to work with AppStream metadata

Contributors

676

Organizations

133

Software value

$2.9M

OpenCL Conformance Test Suite

The OpenCL Conformance Tests

Contributors

426

Organizations

41

Software value

$11M

FHIR

Official source for the HL7 FHIR Specification

Contributors

344

Organizations

26

Software value

$509M

CycloneDX Bill of Materials Specification

The CycloneDX Bill of Materials (BOM) Specification is an open standard for creating comprehensive software bills of materials (SBOM) that detail components, dependencies, and metadata in software applications. It provides a standardized format for describing and sharing software inventory information to improve supply chain transparency and security.

Contributors

262

Organizations

109

Software value

$4M

QUDT

QUDT (Quantities, Units, Dimensions and Data Types) is a framework and ontology that provides a standardized way to define and work with scientific units, quantities, and dimensions. It enables semantic interoperability for scientific and engineering data by providing a comprehensive system for representing units of measurement, quantity kinds, and dimensional analysis.

Contributors

238

Organizations

44

Software value

$534K

Music Encoding Initiative

The Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) is a community-driven effort to create a standardized digital format for representing music notation. It provides guidelines, tools, and specifications for encoding musical documents in a machine-readable form while preserving the semantic meaning of musical notation.

Contributors

165

Organizations

26

Software value

$2.3M

FINOS (The Fintech Open Source Foundation)

FINOS’ mission is to promote open innovation in financial services

Contributors

146

Organizations

48

Software value

$1.4M

AI Readiness

A project focused on helping organizations assess and prepare for adopting artificial intelligence technologies in financial services, likely including evaluation frameworks, best practices, and implementation guidance

Contributors

139

Organizations

44

Software value

$12K

Open Voice Network Interoperability Initiative

The Open Voice Network Interoperability Initiative is developing The “Message Envelope,” a universal, open API for voice/chatbot and language model interoperability, analogous to HTTP AND HTML.

Contributors

132

Organizations

32

Software value

$6.5M

es-abstract

ECMAScript spec abstract operations.

Contributors

104

Organizations

47

Software value

$3.1M

Bitol

Within the BITOL project, the primary objective is to tackle multiple challenges, such as data normalization, ensuring the relevance of documentation, establishing service-level expectations, simplifying data and tool integration, and promoting a data product-oriented approach. These efforts offer several advantages, including stimulating innovation and streamlining integration processes. BITOL is a sandbox-stage project of the LF AI & Data Foundation. Contributed by: AIDA User Group in September 2023

Contributors

95

Organizations

18

Software value

$1.2M

CDEvents

CDEvents Project was created within CDFoundation Community by the Special Interest Group Events and was accepted to join CDFoundation as an incubation level project by CDFoundation Technical Oversight Committee on December 7, 2021.

Contributors

86

Organizations

39

Software value

$3.3M

Swag

openapi specification object model

Contributors

70

Organizations

39

Software value

$423K

C++ Standard Drafts

C++ standards drafts

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CF Conventions

AsciiDoc Source

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DOM Standard

DOM Standard

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Discord API Docs

Official Discord API Documentation

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ECMA-402 Standardization

Status, process, and documents for ECMA 402

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EGL Registry

EGL API and Extension Registry

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Fetch Standard

Fetch Standard

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Frictionless Data

Data Package is a standard consisting of a set of simple yet extensible specifications to describe datasets, data files and tabular data. It is a data definition language (DDL) and data API that facilitates findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (FAIR) of data.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

GitHub Webhooks Specifications

machine-readable, always up-to-date GitHub Webhooks specifications

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JSON Schema Project

JSON Schema specifications, reference schemas, and a CommonJS implementation

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Lightning Network Specifications

BOLT: Basis of Lightning Technology (Lightning Network Specifications)

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Matrix Protocol Specification

The Matrix protocol specification

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Matroska Specification

Matroska specification.

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Nostr

Nostr Implementation Possibilities

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

OGC API - Features

An open standard for querying geospatial information on the web.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Open UI

Maintain an open standard for UI and promote its adherence and adoption.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

OpenGL-Registry

OpenGL, OpenGL ES, and OpenGL ES-SC API and Extension Registry

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

PSR (PHP Standards Recommendations)

Standards either proposed or approved by the Framework Interop Group

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

TEI Guidelines

The Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

URL Standard

URL Standard

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

VIRTIO Specification

OASIS Virtual I/O Device TC: Source code for the VIRTIO (Virtual I/O) Specification maintained by the OASIS Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) Technical Committee

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

WCAG

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Web Authentication

Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

WebAssembly Specification

WebAssembly specification, reference interpreter, and test suite.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

WebAssembly Tool Conventions

Conventions supporting interoperatibility between tools working with WebAssembly.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

WebDriver

Remote control interface that enables introspection and control of user agents.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

WebGPU

Where the GPU for the Web work happens!

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

WebRTC 1.0

WebRTC 1.0 API

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

spdx/license-list-XML

This is the repository for the master files that comprise the SPDX License List

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