Systems Engineering Lessons From OpenII
Abstract
Open Information Interoperability (OpenII) is a collaborative effort spearheaded by MITRE and Google to produce an extensible, open source information interoperability toolkit [Seligman]. OpenII makes it faster and cheaper to build information exchanges when the sending and receiving systems differ in how they represent related information. Because the software is all open source, it can be freely downloaded and customized to meet specific organizational needs. OpenII is being used to solve diverse government information sharing problems. Also, several additional homeland security and defense organizations are actively exploring its use. The purpose of this short paper is to describe the systems engineering lessons learned from the experience of building and applying OpenII. These lessons fall into in three primary bins: Design of information interoperability tools and tool frameworks Lessons for engineers working on interoperability problems Lessons for enterprise planners.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 25, 2010
- Accession Number
- AD1108597
Entities
People
- Arnon Rosenthal
- Catherine Macheret
- Chris Wolf
- Ken Smith
- Len Seligman
- M. D. Allen
- Maya Li
- Peter Mork
Organizations
- MITRE Corporation