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Ability of computer systems to transmit data with unambiguous, shared meaning. Semantic
interoperability is a requirement to enable machine computable logic, inferencing,
knowledge discovery, and data federation between information systems. Semantic interoperability
is achieved when the information transferred has, in its communicated form, all of
the meaning required for the receiving system to interpret it correctly, even when
the algorithms used by the receiving system are unknown to the sending system. Syntactic
interoperability is a prerequisite to semantic interoperability. Semantic interoperability
ensures that the precise format and meaning of exchanged data and information is preserved
and understood throughout exchanges between parties; in other words, what is sent
is what is understood.
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