https://maisonbisson.com/tags/open-formats/ Recent content in open formats on MaisonBisson Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:40:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/closed-formats-are-bad-for-libraries-stop-ooxml-now/ Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:40:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/closed-formats-are-bad-for-libraries-stop-ooxml-now/ Microsoft just won’t quit. Now they’re trying to make OOXML an ISO standard. Please help stop this. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dewitt-clinton-on-the-birth-of-opensearch/ Thu, 03 May 2007 16:04:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dewitt-clinton-on-the-birth-of-opensearch/ OpenSearch is a common way of querying a database for content and returning the results. The idea is that it brings sanity to the proliferation of search APIs, but a realistic view would have to admit that we’ve been trying to do that since before the development of z39.