What is interoperability?

Do others understand what is in your (data) files?

FAIR Definition

Interoperable

The data usually need to be integrated with other data. In addition, the data need to interoperate with applications or workflows for analysis, storage, and processing. Learn more

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Connect and exchange information

Interoperability is a characteristic of a product or system, whose interfaces are completely understood, to work with other products or systems, at present or in the future, in either implementation or access, without any restriction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interoperability

How?

Machine readable interfaces (API); Vocabularies ; Ontologies; Standard data representation; data formats Minimum information standard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocabulary