Standards & Interoperability / Concept
Semantic interoperability
Definition
The ability of independently developed systems to exchange data in ways that preserve shared meaning, so equivalent concepts and activity descriptions can be interpreted consistently across implementations.
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xAPI Profiles were created in part to reduce inconsistent expressions of the same human activity and to give communities a common way to define and reuse meaning across systems.
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Sources and evidence
- xAPI Profiles Specification — Part One §1.0 — semantic interoperability problem statement (direct)