Challenges and Manifesto for Achieving Interoperability in a Global Context
Explore the definitions and perspectives of interoperability from various standards bodies, as well as discussions on extending interoperability beyond technical aspects. The article delves into the importance of interoperability in overcoming barriers and fostering seamless collaboration in different domains.
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Interoperability Global Challenges: Towards an Interoperability Manifesto 1 Franz-Josef Behr Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences ICA Commission on SDI and Standards International CODATA 2017 Conference Global Challenges and Data-Driven Science - 11/10/2017
Outline Towards an Interoperability Manifesto Some thoughts and observations regarding interoperability Lessons learned from the OO Database Manifesto Towards an Interoperability Manifest to foster international (scientific and technical) interoperability 2 27.05.2025
Interoperability: OGCs Definition Interoperability software components operating reciprocally (working with each other) to overcome tedious batch conversion tasks, import/export obstacles, and distributed resource access barriers imposed by heterogeneous processing environments and heterogeneous data. 3 (McKee and Buehler, 1998 ; Sondheim, Gardels and Buehler 1999)
Interoperability: IEEEs Definition Interoperability Ability of two or more systems or components to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged. (IEEE 1990) 4
Interoperability: ISOs Definition Interoperability "The capability to communicate, execute programs, or transfer data among various functional units in a manner that requires the user to have little or no knowledge of the unique characteristics of those units". (ISO/IEC 2382-36:2008) 5
Extend Interoperability! Interoperability The ability to collaborate and to exchange information seeminglessly and without any barriers. Often restricted to technical aspects. 6 But: Interoperability should be extended (as discussed these days).
Interoperability: a stack of means and contributions Technical Interoperabilty Standards, scientific work Interoperability Personal Interoperabilty Semantical Interoperabilty Challenges & Activities Institutional Interoperabilty 7 Common Scientific Activities Political Interoperabilty
Technical Interoperability: between IT systems Technical Interoperabilty Interoperability HTTP, XML, JavaScript, AJAX, SOAP, WMS, WFS, Personal Interoperabilty WCS, WPS,, GML, KML, Internatioal Standards OGC, W3C, ISO & others Semantical Interoperabilty 1. Awareness, Standards evolved in many years, often in consensus driven processes Institutional Interoperabilty 2. Capacity building, 8 3. Education well established 4. Contribution Political Interoperabilty Presentations, workshops, education
Personal Interoperability: between people Technical Interoperabilty Communication skills, personal relationships, social networking, cultural understanding, foreign languages Personal Interoperabilty Interoperability Relationships Interpersonal Standards Semantical Interoperabilty evolving over years, Institutional Interoperabilty Sharing our data sharing through web services student / staff / academic exchange 10 Based on trust and on scientific ethics Political Interoperabilty common research common publications Presentations, Tea breaks,
Semantical Interoperability: between knowledge islands Technical Interoperabilty Interoperability Semantical Interoperabilty Personal Interoperabilty Collaboration between groups and extreme Personal Interoperabilty different disciplines Vocabularies, taxonomies, ontologies Collaboration between groups and disciplines Institutional Interoperabilty 11 Transcending the barriers communication evolving over years, based on knowledge still part of scientific research Political Interoperabilty Keynotes, presentations, workshops, tea breaks, sharing time
Institutional Interoperability: between organisations Technical Interoperabilty Institutional Interoperabilty Interoperability Personal Interoperabilty Personal Interoperabilty Semantical Interoperabilty Common projects, common publications, Memorandum of Understand (MoU), Dual degree programs dependencies 14 evolving over years, based on decision, shaped by communicated convictions Political Interoperabilty How can we learn to extend collaboration?
Political Interoperability: between communities Technical Interoperabilty Institutional Interoperabilty Personal Interoperabilty Our impact? Our responsibility? Technical Interoperabilty Interoperability Personal Interoperabilty Political Interoperabilty Semantical Interoperabilty political interests, economical interests Institutional Interoperabilty 15 Long term process
Interoperability We all learn if we share what we know. 16 Robert R. DiBlasi
Interoperability Lessons learned from the OO Database Manifesto 17 https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2003/DBaseThy/ oo-manifesto.pdf []
Interoperability International team of authors from academia and business 18
Interoperability Core set of rules in the sense of Commandments A recognized standard paper in this field of Computer Science 19 Influencing further developments
In the Manifesto: Several levels of liability Interoperability Mandatory, "golden" rules ("commandments") Optional recommendations Open Criteria 20
Interoperability Steps towards Interoperability Manifesto 21
Our Manifesto Can contribute to the Openess of data, science etc Interoperability can bundle our forces, can be attractive to the scientific community worldwide (for support, for collaboration and dissemination), can be used to influence stakeholders in the political and technical arena can disseminate our ideas and convictions can extend our impact as CODATA 22
Some basic rules in a manifesto Towards an Interoperability Manifesto Just as a start - to be discussed and extended: Thou shalt support open standards! Thou shalt provide appropriate licences! Thou shalt support a reasonable amount of meta data in a standardized format! Thou shalt not charge for public data. Thine data shalt be reliable and complete 23 27.05.2025
Some steps Towards an Interoperability Manifesto 1. Setting up a CODATA working group /task group, superseeding several CODATA task groups 2. Thorough scientific work on the different fields of interoperability 3. Searching f r liaisons to other bodies 4. Development of a draft 5. Setting up of a website for outreach and to provide the option to sign the Interoperability Manifesto. 6. Further discussion and refinement 24 27.05.2025
Essential messages Towards an Interoperability Manifesto CODATA (as part of ICSU) can play an effective rule to leverage an Interoperability Manifesto. The Interoperability Manifesto has to be developed by a consortium of scientists from different discplines. The target must be a world-wide visibility across technical and social disciplines. Drop me a mail if you plan to support: 25 franz-josef.behr@hft-stuttgart.de
Further reading Towards an Interoperability Manifesto G7 SCIENCE MINISTERS COMMUNIQU , Turin, 27 28 September , www.g7italy.it/sites/default/files/documents/G7%20Science%20C ommuniqu%C3%A9.pdf 26 27.05.2025
