Social and solidarity economy Web information systems: state of the art and an interoperability framework

• Autor(a) principal: Malta, Mariana Curado
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Baptista, Ana Alice, Parente, Cristina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/50769
• topic: Dublin Core Application Profile; Interoperability; Semantic Interoperability; Semantic Web; Social and Solidarity Economy; Dublin corre application profile; Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informática; Social Sciences

This paper presents the state of the art on interoperability developments for the social and solidarity economy (SSE) community web based information systems (WIS); it also presents a framework of interoperability for the SSE’ WIS and the developments made in a research-in-progress PhD project in the last 3 years. A search on the bibliographic databases showed that so far there are no papers on interoperability initiatives on the SSE, so it was necessary to have other sources of information: a preliminary analysis of the WIS that support SSE activities; and interviews with the representatives of some of the world’s most important SSE organisations. The study showed that the WIS are still not interoperable yet. In order to become interoperable a group of the SSE community has been developing a Dublin Corre Application Profile to be used by the SSE community as reference and binding to describe their resources. This paper also describes this on-going process.