A subset of the vast amount of technology resource includes;

International Standards Organizations

International Organization for Standardization (ISO) - responsible for international quality standards

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - standards such as XML, SOAP, WS*, OWL, RDF, GRDDL and SPARQL

Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems (OASIS) - standards such as DITA, DocBook, UBL, SAML

Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) - international authority on ECM and ERM

Object Management Group (OMG) - model and domain based standards such as BPMN, BMM, BPMM, MDA, UML

European Committee for Standardization (CEN) - European committee for standardization

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) - technical standards body

Research Funding Bodies

Cordis -  European Union ICT Research budget

Air Force Research Laboratories (AFRL) - military research organization

DARPA - DoD research organization

NASA - space research organization

NSF - national science foundation

Research Organizations

New Paradigm - international think tank based on extensive Enterprise research

Enterprise Architecture

The Open Group (TOGAF)  - open standards and global interoperability framework
ZapThink - established SOA analysts
SOA Magazine -  respected SOA author

Other Technology

Other credible sources, including;

• over 20 leading technology analysts
• specialist technology websites
• almost 300 emerging semantic technology vendors
• hundreds (and growing) of SaaS and commercial open source vendors
• thousands of traditional vendors
• tens of thousands of specialist technology books and research papers

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