Editing OASIS (organization) (section)

== History ==
[[File:Office entrance (02).jpg|thumbnail|Entrance of the OASIS office at Burlington, Massachusetts.]]
OASIS was founded under the name "SGML Open" in 1993. It began as a trade association of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) tool vendors to cooperatively promote the adoption of SGML through mainly educational activities, though some amount of technical activity was also pursued including an update of the [[CALS Table Model]] specification and specifications for fragment interchange and entity management.<ref name="about">{{cite web|url=https://www.oasis-open.org/org|title=About Us|access-date=August 10, 2015}}</ref>

In 1998, with the movement of the industry to [[XML]], SGML Open changed its emphasis from SGML to XML, and changed its name to OASIS Open to be inclusive of XML and reflect an expanded scope of technical work and standards. The focus of the consortium's activities also moved from promoting adoption (as XML was getting much attention on its own) to developing technical specifications. In July 2000 a new technical committee process was approved. With the adoption of the process the manner in which technical committees were created, operated, and progressed their work was regularized. At the adoption of the process there were five technical committees; by 2004 there were nearly 70{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}.

During 1999, OASIS was approached by [[UN/CEFACT]], the committee of the [[United Nations]] dealing with standards for business, to jointly develop a new set of specifications for electronic business. The joint initiative, called "[[ebXML]]" and which first met in November 1999, was chartered for a three-year period. At the final meeting under the original charter, in Vienna, UN/CEFACT and OASIS agreed to divide the remaining work between the two organizations and to coordinate the completion of the work through a coordinating committee. In 2004 OASIS submitted its completed ebXML specifications to [[ISO]] TC154 where they were approved as ''ISO 15000''.

The consortium has its headquarters in [[Woburn, Massachusetts]], shared with other companies. In December 2020, OASIS moved to its current location, 400 TradeCenter Drive. Previous office locations include 25 Corporate Drive Suite 103 and 35 Corporate Drive, Suite 150, both in Burlington, MA.<ref name="location">{{cite web |title=OASIS Headquarters Moving |url=https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/members/201408/msg00007.html |access-date=August 10, 2015}}</ref>