Roadmap for an IT Ecosystem
One of the most useful studies I have recently seen is the work of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School which has published a Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems that contains best practices and in an appendix an explicit "openness" maturity model for open standards. It lists the specific benefits to industry and government of having an open standards based information and communications technology ecosystem. The study also contains a lucid explanation of the difference between open source and open standards and how the two relate.
The Global Justice XML Data Model was fortuitously and accidentally created using best practices articulated in this study, but we had no such theory to guide the GJXDM development efforts. It still lacks the maturity proposed in the Berkman model, but its roots are affirmed by the practices proposed in this study. It is also an interesting study in that it was conducted on a global scale with input from more than a dozen countries and the commonality of concepts for information sharing is remarkable. The study was sponsored by two of the IJIS Institute members—IBM and Oracle.
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