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Federal Policy (Other Organizations) U.S. Legislation/Policy - General (U.S. Policy) |
| Author: | David Landsbergen and George Wolken |
| Abstract: | This report prepared for the Intergovernmental Enterprise Panel is the first part of the interoperable government systems report. This phase of the study focuses on the barriers to interoperability. These have been categorized as follows: (1) political (includes issues of privacy, ambiguities in statutory authority, openness to public scrutiny); (2) organizational (issues of trust, lack of experience and awareness of opportunities to share); (3) economic (issues of lack of resources, procurement methods); and (4) technical (issues of software/hardware compatibility, and data sharing standards). The authors reviewed all previous research concerning this topic and developed a tool to determine whether the existing policy architecture performed all of the generic functions necessary to any policy process. Extensive interviews were conducted and three case studies were chosen to study the most important aspects of interoperability. Some of the findings include: (1) the need to perceive interoperability as sharing of information; (2) the failure of many interoperability projects to share metadata or be unaware of existence; (3) lack of time and budget are prohibitive to effectuate the sharing of information; (4) many agencies specify how data is to be shared; (5) policy makers and managers do not always have the expertise to develop strong interoperable systems. The authors concluded that there were no major policy barriers to interoperability at the federal level but that there was a lack of mechanisms to support interoperability. |
| Publisher: | Ohio Supercomputer Center, ECLIPS Program |
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| Date Published: | 1998-08-12 |
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| Resource Type: | Report |
| Language: | English |
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