What is interoperability.. ?

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What is interoperability.. ?

• What is interoperability ?
• Why ?
• Ulf Sandström CFL
• interoperable adj.able to operate in
  conjunctioninteroperability n.(Consice Oxford
  Dictionary , 9th ed.)What is
• Openness
• Sharing
• Access
• Breaking-down of barriers

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Def. Interoperability , www.whatis.com

• is the ability of a system or a product to work
  with other systems or products without special
  effort on the part of the customer.
  Interoperability becomes a quality of
  increasing importance for information technology
  products as the concept that "The network is the
  computer" becomes a reality.

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To be interoperabel

• one should actively be engaged in the ongoing
  process of ensuring that the systems, procedures
  and culture of an organisation are managed in
  such a way as to maximise opportunities for
  exchange and re-use of information, whether
  internally or externally.

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To be interoperabel

• Based upon this definition, it should be clear
  that there is far more to ensuring
  interoperability than using compatible software
  and hardware, although that is of course
  important.
• Rather, assurance of effective interoperability
  will require often radical changes to the ways in
  which organisations work and, especially, in
  their attitudes to information.

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To be interoperabel

• Across a whole range of ICT-related initiatives,
  in various countries and multiple domains, new
  emphasis upon openness, sharing, and access is
  requiring detailed consideration as to how
  previously private and often proprietarily
  monolithic systems can be opened up.
• More often than not, the term chosen to describe
  this process is "interoperability", but the
  meanings implied (they are rarely, if ever,
  stated) for this term vary quite significantly.

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Flavours of interoperability

• Technical
• Semantic
• Political / Human
• Inter community
• Legal
• InternationalP Miller Univ of Hull

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Why interoperability , ex Zone Integration
Server?

• Rather than have each application vendor try to
  create a separate connection to every other
  application, you must define the set of rules and
  definitions to share data within a Zone.
• A Zone is a logical grouping of applications, in
  which software application agents communicate
  with each other through a central communication
  point the Zone Integration Server (ZIS).
• Data is shared between applications through a
  series of standardized messages, queries and
  events written in XML and sent using Internet
  protocols .

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Why interoperability , ex ZIS?

• These events are defined by a Specification.
• Agents are extensions of each application that
  serve as the intermediary between the software
  application and the Zone. The ZIS keeps track of
  the Agents registered in the Zone and manages
  transactions between Agents, enabling them to
  provide data and respond to requests.

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Why interoperability ex ZIS?

• The ZIS is responsible for all access control and
  routing and security within the system. Because
  the behavior of the Agents and ZIS are standard
  functionality can be added to a Zone over time by
  simply adding enabled applications.
• Vertical interoperability is a situation in which
  agents at different levels of an organization
  communicate using a Zone.
• Vertical interoperability involves data
  collection from multiple agents (upward) or
  publishing of information to multiple agents
  (downward).

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Varför interoperabilitet ?
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Why interoperability , ex ZIS?

• For example, the state department may wish to
  publish teacher certification data to districts.
• http//www.sifinfo.org/home/why_interoperability.h
  tmThe Schools Interoperability
  FrameworkWashingtonMailinglist
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Interoperability test

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