Discourse situations and markup interoperability
Karen M. Wickett · Balisage series on markup technologies · 2010
Interoperability is often considered a key issue for information systems, but there are many different kinds of interoperability and only a few have been give precise definitions. Situation semantics and the notions of discourse situations and resource situations are promising tools for the conceptualization of markup within a general theory of communication. This paper uses these concepts to explore the role of context in determining the meaning of markup and to define a particular kind of interoperability for markup structures. A Dublin Core OAI-PMH record and associated schema are used to show how the use of contextual information supports (or fails to support) the interoperability of the record.