Interoperability

Open dataTechnology

Interoperability is a characteristic of a product or system that can work with other products or systems without special effort.

Developing interoperability involves the task of building coherent services for users when the individual components are technically different and managed by different organizations

In practice

Beyond the ability of two or more computer systems to exchange information, semantic interoperability is the ability to automatically interpret the information exchanged meaningfully and accurately in order to produce useful results as defined by the end users of both systems

Related terms

Technology

API – Application Programming Interface

An API is an interface that defines how, for example, software applications can communicate with each other. APIs allow different software systems to interact and share data.

Open data

Bulk Download

Data is available in 'bulk' if the entire dataset can be downloaded easily and at once, rather than having to access individual records separately.

Technology

CKAN

An open-source software platform for creating data portals, built and maintained by the Open Knowledge Foundation.