Microsoft, IBM, SAP and others have moved to make the Microsoft-derived Open Data Protocol an official international standard. The Open Data Protocol (OData) is used for data-sharing, which makes it ...

If you have ever thought, “If I was defining standards, I would have never done it that way.” Here is your chance. Open standards organization the Organization for the Advancement of Structured ...

While Internet Explorer 9 may have had the limelight on MIX’s second day, Microsoft also made significant moves towards data accessibility with further announcements around its Open Data Protocol, and ...

OData, the Open Data Protocol, is a protocol from Microsoft for querying and updating data. You may remember hearing "Astoria" Protocol or ADO.NET Data Services ...

Developed in alignment with, and building upon, other data standardization initiatives, including the G20-led Common Carbon Credit Data Model (CCCDM), the CAD Trust, and the UNFCCC (relating to ...

Anthropic today released a new open source protocol to let all AI systems, not just its own, connect with data sources via a standard interface. Model Context Protocol (MCP), the company said in its ...

Anthropic is proposing a new standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data resides. Called the Model Context Protocol, or MCP for short, Anthropic says the standard, which it open ...