What Is OSIS?
The Open Scripture Information Standard (OSIS) is an XML schema for marking up scripture and related text, part of an “open scripture” initiative composed of translators, publishers, scholars, software manufacturers, and technical experts who are coordinated by the Bible Technologies Group. The group formed out of an informal meeting at a technology conference in 2000 where key players from the American Bible Society, SIL International, and the Society of Biblical Literature connected and began to share about the need for a common digital format for the Bible. OSIS is the first project to come out of the Bible Technologies Group. The purpose of the OSIS initiative is to research, identify, and develop the organizational, process, and technical basis that will produce markup standards for biblical and related texts. This is critical so that we can have interoperability across natural language boundaries and computer hardware and software for publication, linking, reference, and accessib
