Re: Current Perspectives on Interoperability

I think we should, if we can decide on a definition..

Another possible definition for "interoperability" from [1]:
"The ability of software and hardware on different machines from different 
vendors to share data."

Another resource (article plus definitions) on "interoperability" is at [2].

Thanks and best wishes
Tim Boland NIST

[1]: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/i/interoperability.html
[2]: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/interoperability




At 01:36 PM 11/15/2005 -0500, you wrote:


>Le 05-11-15 à 11:15, Karl Dubost a écrit :
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>>But they decided to adopt
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>>[[[
>>These observations lead us to a more abstract working definition of
>>interoperability:
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>>The ability of a collection of communicating entities to
>>         (a) share specified information and
>>         (b) operate on that information according to an agreed operational
>>semantics.
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>We haven't defined interoperability in the [QA glossary][1]
>Should we?
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>[1]: http://www.w3.org/QA/glossary
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>Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
>W3C Conformance Manager
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