Category:Vision

The vision of the Open Semantic Framework (OSF), first defined in 2009, is to:
 * Target enterprises, both profit and non-profit
 * Create a capable platform sufficient to:
 * Enable integration of unstructured (documents), semi-structured (markup, XML, Web pages) and structured (tables, spreadsheets, databases) information as structured data across the enterprise, regardless of original format
 * Leverage existing information assets without modification or disruption
 * Interoperate with standard Web sources
 * Include a sufficient baseline of knowledge management functionality, including search, business intelligence, analysis, visualization
 * Support any human language
 * Allow export of results sets in formats usable by common external tools
 * Facilitate the publishing of structured data and other content on the Web
 * Use a web-oriented design such that individual platform instances may collaborate and interact with other groups and organizations on the Web
 * Support the platform with tools sufficient for knowledge workers to use and maintain the system on their own
 * Fully document the design, use, implementation, operation and maintenance of these capabilities
 * Formulate implementation methodologies and workflows sufficient to self-direct implementation
 * Provide all platform capabilities and documentation in open source.