iTools aims to provide an open, yet secure, infrastructure for resource archival, retrieval and traversal; communication between tool developers, clinicians, scientists and the general community; and to facilitate the interoperability of resources developed by a wide spectrum of investigators and employed in a variety of computational biology studies.
As NIF seeks to promote interoperability of resources in general, the DISCO protocol also recognizes other sitemap formats, e.g. Biositemaps, so that resource providers do not have to maintain multiple site map files.
Consequently, this paper presents a mean to assess interoperability of the resources involved in a process during all its life cycle.
To provide an integrated perspective of network emulation testbed, this paper surveys the issues associated in developing network emulation testbeds, including the state-of-the-art of architecture, the interoperability of orchestrating resources, and the way of managing components.
To provide an extensible framework for interoperability of these resources the LONI Pipeline employs a decentralized infrastructure, where data, tools and services are linked via an external inter-resource mediating layer.
The classical problems of gathering meaningful data, fitting specific models, and discovering appropriate analysis and visualization tools give way to a new class of computational challenges management of large and incongruous data, integration and interoperability of computational resources, and data provenance.
User stories highlighting research currently limited due to a lack of interoperability of data resources would need to be collected.
We believe these efforts will lead to improved interoperability of these resources and tools, thus making them more valuable to the text mining research community and beyond.
Once a resource has been discovered and annotated, the next step in the curation process is establishing integration and interoperability of the resource's content within the NIF Data Federation (1).
Some of the challenges include lack of interoperability or compatibility of resources, licensing restrictions, federal, state and local regulations, mistrust in attribution, ineffective infrastructure, and discipline boundaries.
Consequently, this paper provides a comparison of existing interoperability assessment solutions and presents a methodology to assess interoperability of people, material resources and organisation units involved or that could be involved in a process, all along the deployment effort.
