No open web without open interoperability

The web exists today because of open technologies created in the past. Open protocols and formats like TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL and HTML have been elemental in ensuring the wide adoption of the internet as a standard media for information and communication today. That does however not mean that data is openly available. It also doesn’t mean that sites are more than stovepipes, only addressing their own information and services. For web-applications to truly open up, more is needed. The ‘more’ is interoperability, or rather, open interoperability. And there is a lot to be done still to come even close. My presentation will go into what’s needed to create a truly open web where data can flow freely between different services and where applications can cooperate and interoperate.

Some Subjects:

• Forms of Interoperability: Dataportability, Data-exchange and ‘Intercooperation’.
• Architectural layers of Interoperability: Business, Semantic and Technical.
• Types of interoperability that exist but are wrong (database-level data-exchange, proprietary APIs, etc)
• Web 3.0

Case

E-government. I will cover some aspects of the Dutch situation. Interoperability is a precursor for creating an open E-government web. Subjects covered are amongst others OSB, Semantic standards, technology-choice.