Interoperability
• Recombinant potential
– Disaggregating scholarly
publishing
• Linking, Identifiers
– ‘Play’ learning objects
• Packaged
– Federated searching
• Fusing metadata
– Processing content
• Structured documents
– Ingesting content
– Surface service channels
• Examples
– Can I add a document
to a repository?
– Can I add a repository
to a distributed query?
– Can I fuse metadata
from one repository with
another?
– Metadata is not just for
discovery (objects,
services, organizations,
policies, …)