ABSTRACT: On organisational influences in software standards and their open source implementations

Jonas Gamalielsson, University of Skövde, Björn Lundell, University of Skövde, Jonas Feist, Tomas Gustavsson, and Frederic Landqvist

5/11/2016
(Original Publish Date: 2015)

It is widely acknowledged that standards implemented in open source software can reduce risks for lock-in, improve interoperability, and promote competition on the market. However, there is limited knowledge concerning the relationship between standards and their implementations in open source software. This paper reports from an investigation of organisational influences in software standards and open source software implementations of software standards. The study focuses on the RDFa standard and its implementation in the Drupal project.