Apache Ossie: The New Name for Open Semantic Interchange (OSI)

• From: Angela Tran | Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:41:26 +0000 #
  Subject: Apache Ossie: The New Name for Open Semantic Interchange (OSI)

  Introducing Ossie! Open Semantic Interchange (OSI) has been accepted into the Apache Software Foundation Incubator as Apache Ossie (incubating). This is an open, community-driven effort to formalize OSI. The open standard defines a vendor-neutral format for metrics and data relationships, ensuring that both BI tools and AI agents can consume data without losing meaning. Learn more and contribute: https://ossie.apache.org/

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    From: Jihoo Park | Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:08:28 +0000 #

    https://www.getdbt.com/blog/osi-is-now-apache-ossie OSI is now Apache Ossie (Incubating) If you've been following the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI) project, the open specification for semantic layer and ontology, there's an important update. The project has been accepted into the Apache Incubator. Along with this transition the name is changing to Apache Ossie (Incubating). When work on this initiative was started, it was called the Open Semantic Interchange. This quickly got shortened to OSI, which became the GitHub repo name. Unfortunately this has caused some confusion along the way as the acronym OSI is used frequently to refer to Open... Read More: https://www.getdbt.com/blog/osi-is-now-apache-ossie

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    From: Jihoo Park | Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:42:25 +0000 #

    Snowflake has released two new public preview functions to help make Ossie easier to use with Snowflake semantic views. You can now read a Snowflake semantic view as Ossie-compliant YAML, and create a Snowflake semantic view from an Ossie YAML model. SELECT SYSTEM$READOSSIEYAMLFROMSEMANTIC_VIEW( 'mydb.myschema.sales_model' ); -- Write an Ossie model CALL SYSTEM$CREATESEMANTICVIEWFROMOSSIE_YAML( 'mydb.myschema', $$ version: "0.1.1" name: roundtripmodel datasets:

    • name: sales

    source: my_db.public.sales primary_key:

    • sale_id

    fields:

    • name: sale_id

    expression: dialects:

    • dialect: SNOWFLAKE

    expression: sale_id dimension: is_time: false

    • name: sale_date

    expression: dialects:

    • dialect: SNOWFLAKE

    expression: sale_date dimension: is_time: true

    • name: amount

    expression: dialects:

    • dialect: SNOWFLAKE

    expression: amount $$ ); -- Read it back as Ossie YAML SELECT SYSTEM$READOSSIEYAMLFROMSEMANTIC_VIEW( 'mydb.myschema.roundtripmodel' );

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