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interoperability  

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  • Interoperability is the ability for heterogeneous computer systems to exchange messages and data with shared semantic meaning using common network systems. Interoperability continues to increase in importance with the amount of data and information we want to share and the number and diversity of computing systems with which we want to share it. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science; Interoperability]

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