Collate, the company behind the OpenMetadata project, has joined the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI), an open-source initiative led by Snowflake and industry partners. OSI aims to create a universal, vendor-neutral specification for semantic models, enabling consistent definitions of business metrics and data across diverse analytics, governance, and AI platforms to improve interoperability and reduce complexity.
Collate joins the Snowflake-led Open Semantic Interchange (OSI) initiative.
OSI is an open-source effort to create a standard for semantic data models.
The goal is to ensure consistent metrics and definitions across tools and AI models.
It addresses fragmentation in data definitions that hinders analysis and sharing.
Collate will contribute its expertise from the OpenMetadata project.
The standard aims to simplify data operations and accelerate AI innovation.
As organizations use an increasing number of disparate data tools for BI, governance, and AI, maintaining consistent definitions for business metrics becomes a major challenge. The OSI initiative seeks to solve this by establishing a common, open specification for semantic metadata—the business context and definitions behind data. This "trusted semantic foundation" would allow metrics to be understood and used consistently whether viewed in a dashboard, processed in a notebook, or fed into a machine learning model.
A key outcome of OSI is improved interoperability. By providing a vendor-neutral format for semantic models, the standard would enable seamless exchange of metadata between different platforms. This reduces the manual effort and errors associated with reconciling definitions across tools, streamlining operations and allowing organizations to share "data products" more effectively to fuel AI and analytics initiatives.
Collate brings significant credibility to the initiative as the creator and maintainer of OpenMetadata, a widely adopted open-source project for metadata management. The company's Semantic Intelligence Platform is built on open standards, aligning with OSI's philosophy. Collate's role will be to help ensure the OSI specification can be applied consistently across the entire data lifecycle—from discovery and quality to governance and AI operationalization.
"Unlocking the full potential of data and AI requires a common foundation," said Josh Klahr of Snowflake. By collaborating with partners like Collate, OSI aims to provide the industry with the semantic bedrock needed to simplify complex data landscapes and build reliable, next-generation AI applications.
About Collate Inc.
Collate is the company behind the OpenMetadata project. Its Semantic Intelligence Platform translates metadata and business context into meaning so organizations can discover, govern, and operationalize trusted data and AI at scale. Global 2000 companies and innovative startups rely on Collate to improve data trust, accelerate analytics, and enable AI-ready data foundations. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Collate is backed by world-class investors including Venrock, Unusual Ventures, and Karman Ventures.
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