All organisations have disparate, disconnected data systems that need to interoperate, but doing so is often not a simple matter. Data systems can have varying technologies, data structures and underlying semantics, all of which can make integration difficult. Metataxis has experience of a number of technologies and strategies which can help you meet your goals.
- Digital Identifier Systems. Every system in your organisation will have its own private set of identifiers. An external, global, persistent identifier - like a global database key - allows systems to be interconnected, and data objects to be uniquely identified, transacted and managed.
- Distributed Architectures. All organisations have numerous information systems in operation. This, combined with the increasingly distributed information world and the blurring of the demarcation between systems, means defining a distributed object architecture could allow your systems to be both simultaneously centralised and de-centralised.
- XML. XML has transformed the ability of systems to interoperate at the technical, syntactic level. By developing appropriately data-typed and structured schemas, XML can become part of a re-usable information architecture.
- The Semantic Web and Metadata Mapping. Interoperating information on the technical and syntactic levels can be very important. However, interoperating your information on the semantic level, using modern ontological techniques, allows maximum meaning to be gained from the information you hold.
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Information interoperability projects
Interoperability
 What does "interoperability" really mean? It depends on the levels.
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