Some people think standards are imposed on
organizations from the outside. The reality is that the need for standards
emerges naturally as business areas become more complex. Standards form the
answer to a question that will always arise in any domain where people need to
share information.
A current example is the project to bring standards to Linked
Data. Because Linked Data is loosely
defined, this “has led to an environment where interoperability suffers. That’s
because people are left to solve the same problems, such as those around
publishing and retrieving data, over and over again, and they take different
paths to get there”. It could be one of these paths is the
optimal path, and everybody should be using it. Or it could be everybody needs
to get together and develop a new path. The important thing is they recognize
they have the same problem.
“Interoperability” is shorthand for “being
able to work with each other”. The need to work with other individuals and
organizations isn't an external requirement, something that comes out of
nowhere. It's an essential aspect of every business. Get Formal WIth Linked Data
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