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Where Do Integration Agreements Live?

PRAXIS101: Interfaces, systems, engineering, and API's.  Anderbill and I have been pondering where meaning arises for interfaces.  He has found a relevant systems engineering account in terms of the building failure at Charles deGaulle airport. Keep in mind that this speculation precedes the thorough analysis that will be undertaken to reach a conclusive understanding of the failure and its root causes.

Just the same, the discussion of the airport failure is a great reminder that integration points introduce opportunities for misunderstanding. This inspired anderbill to recall an example of two teams understanding the use of a TIFF image-property code differently, leading to an incoherent result between image-capture software and image-presentation software.  This fits with many discussions of metadata coding and also of the general viability of the Semantic Web.

Meanwhile, anderbill and I have taken our exploration of the syntax, semantics, and "what is coded where" out of sight until we have the crude initial exploration out of the way.  We are already having fun discovering our misunderstanding of each other with regard to the chosen example and a provocative comment from anderbill.
posted by orcmid at 5/26/2004 02:38:34 PM