Apache Ossie(Incubating) -- OSI Joins the Apache Incubator

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Apache Ossie (Incubating) -- OSI Joins the Apache Incubator

Announcement

We are very excited to announce that Open Semantic Interchange (OSI) has been accepted into the Apache Incubator under a new name: Apache Ossie (Incubating).

We chose the name "Ossie" to avoid confusion with other open-source projects sharing the OSI acronym. While our name, mascot, and governance home have changed, our core mission remains exactly the same: providing a robust specification for defining business context including the semantic layer and ontology.

Apache Ossie (Incubating) is more than a semantic metadata standard — it is the complete business context layer that AI agents need to reason over data correctly. Moving to the Apache Software Foundation ensures Ossie continues as a vendor-neutral standard for expressing rich, agent-ready context across BI platforms, query engines, and AI agents alike.

What This Means for Contributors and Consumers

For contributors:
All current open PRs will be automatically migrated. Thank you for your contributions , this move gives us a stronger, more open foundation to build on together.

For consumers:
The core specification and its direction remain unchanged. We are transitioning project infrastructure to the ASF and will post updates here as soon as the new resources and repositories are ready.

Get Involved

We invite everyone to join our consensus-driven community and help shape the future of semantic interoperability. Watch this space for updates on new repositories, mailing lists, and contribution guides.