The National Institute of Standards and Technology held its third annual Interoperability Week in Gaithersburg, MD., April 28 - May 2.

Interoperability Week provides a venue for people from different disciplines to compare issues and share solutions to interoperability problems in their domain.  This year's conference was attended by over 200 participants from a variety of backgrounds, including manufacturing, eBusiness, standards development, and bioscience. Conference session topics included manufacturing systems integration, advanced semantic language development, digital image search, sensor integration, and enterprise integration.

Interoperability Week is coordinated and hosted by NIST's
Systems Integration for Manufacturing Applications (SIMA) program.