Title
On organisational involvement and collaboration in W3C standards through editorship.
Abstract
Over time, 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. An understanding of 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 the World Wide Web Consortium (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. We make five 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 how different organisations, organisation types, and countries are involved in W3C technologies. Fourth, we report on organisational involvement in relation to standard development time. Fifth, we establish how organisations collaborate in W3C standardisation through social network analysis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1186/s13174-017-0056-1
J. Internet Services and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Organisations,Involvement,Collaboration,W3C,Standards,Editorship
Open standard,Interoperability,Computer science,Computer communication networks,Social network analysis,Web standards,Knowledge management,Software system,Software,Computer Applications
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
1
1867-4828
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.36
15
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jonas Gamalielsson18113.11
Björn Lundell244247.13