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What we add

Topic graph

A wire service tags a release with a category, once. It doesn't maintain a durable graph over time. We connect them to a topic graph an agent can query.

Enterprise https://decisioninsights.ai/term/enterprise/ IT Governance https://decisioninsights.ai/term/it-governance/ Metadata https://decisioninsights.ai/term/metadata/ and 3 more

Counted facts

A protocol or open source project keeps no vendor list and publishes no figures of its own to check this against. This counts how it actually shows up across the graph -- articles that name it, the organizations named alongside it in those articles, similar projects, and organizations whose topic tags overlap with its own -- computed, not curated.

Related projects Open Source Readiness, OpenAssetIO, FOSSology, Open Compliance Program, Open Shading Language, Apache Portals, Open Source Security Foundation, CHAOSS Related organizations LAION, Invoke AI, PCSX2, Backslash Security, Black Duck Software, CloudQuery, Endor Labs, Kusari