Open Web

The Open Web movement asserts a special role for public, cooperative, and standard World Wide Web communications; it opposes private, exclusive, proprietary Web solutions.

Computer scientist Tantek Çelik gives three aspects of the Open Web:

1. publish content and applications on the web in open standards
2. code and implement the web standards depend on
3. access and use content / code / web-apps / implementations

• The Open Web standard is the Open Web Platform
• The Mozilla Foundation is a prominent advocate of the Open Web.
• Open Source facilitates the Open Web, and benefits from it.
• Open access (publishing) shares a similar philosophy to the Open Web, focused on scholarly articles.
• Creative Commons develops legal concepts related to the Open Web.

External links

• What Is the Open Web and Why Is It Important?
• The Death of the Open Web
• An Open Web, downloadable book at flossmanuals.net