In short, the Learning Registry has created open application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow publishers and others to quickly publish metadata and paradata about their content.
Alsop admits that the pay TV companies are starting to open up programming interfaces, but only for access to their program guides, not to execute programs on their technical platforms.
"BeagleBone cape plug-in boards give open hardware examples of how to implement various interfaces and tested configurations that can be used for experimentation immediately, " said Jason Kridner, community advocate, BeagleBoard.org.
Open source has been used primarily in IT shops and especially on Unix platforms, where a number of necessary components are by tradition open source (things like file systems or graphical user interfaces).
This is a shift away from proprietary APIs and interfaces that tie clients to their storage vendors as CDMI is a more open approach aimed at reducing vendor dependability.