OSI
Open Semantic Interchange
Judgement: Assess
Emerging vendor-neutral semantic exchange; promising, adoption early.
Vendor-agnostic open-source standard for exchanging semantic models — datasets, relationships, metrics, and AI context — between BI platforms, AI agents, and analytics tools.
Overlaps with ODCS on datasets and relationships, and adds metrics (e.g. total_revenue = SUM(order_total)) and dynamic fields (e.g. full_name = first_name + " " + last_name). ODCS still owns terms of use, quality, and SLAs.
Acronym collision with the OSI networking model from CS class. This OSI is the Open Semantic Interchange.
At a glance
- Category
- Semantics
- Governance
- OSI Initiative — Snowflake, Salesforce, dbt Labs, BlackRock, Databricks, Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), and many more
- Status
- v0.1.1; explicitly early, working groups very active
- First released
- 2025
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Related standards
Other standards in Semantics.
- DCAT — Data Catalog Vocabulary
- JSON-LD — JSON for Linking Data
- RDF/OWL — Resource Description Framework / Web Ontology Language
- SHACL — Shapes Constraint Language
- SKOS — Simple Knowledge Organization System
- schema.org — schema.org vocabulary
- ShEx — Shape Expressions Language
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