On Involvement in Open Standards: How Do Organisations Contribute to W3C Standards Through Editorship? - Open Source Systems: Integrating Communities
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On Involvement in Open Standards: How Do Organisations Contribute to W3C Standards Through Editorship?

Jonas Gamalielsson
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Björn Lundell
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Over the years, a number of open standards have been developed and implemented in software for addressing a number of challenges, such as lock-in, interoperability and longevity of software systems and associated digital artefacts. Understanding organisational involvement and collaboration in standardisation is important for informing any future policy and organisational decisions concerning involvement in standardisation. The overarching goal of the study is to establish how organisations contribute to open standards development through editorship. Specifically, the focus is on open standards development in W3C. Through an analysis of editorship for all W3C recommendations we contribute novel findings concerning organisational involvement and collaboration, and highlight contributions from different types of organisations and countries for headquarter of each organisation. We make three principal contributions. First, we establish an overall characterisation of organisational involvement in W3C standardisation. Second, we report on organisational involvement in W3C standardisation over time. Third, we establish organisational collaboration in W3C standardisation through social network analysis.
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hal-01369051 , version 1 (20-09-2016)

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Jonas Gamalielsson, Björn Lundell. On Involvement in Open Standards: How Do Organisations Contribute to W3C Standards Through Editorship?. 12th IFIP International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS), May 2016, Gothenburg, Sweden. pp.57-70, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-39225-7_5⟩. ⟨hal-01369051⟩
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