Interoperability implies a better and mutual understanding
between individuals or systems that need to work together. It
is a fundamental challenge for knowledge discovery, development,
and sharing. Interoperability allows the many components of space
science organizations and space science systems to work together
to achieve benefits for NASA and the public.
Interoperability is often implemented by creating individual
agreements between concerned parties on the selection of a single
common tool. However, developing individual agreements for each
situation quickly becomes tedious. And when dealing with many
individuals or organizations, agreeing to a single tool can become
very difficult. So interoperability points to a wider vision
and coordinated efforts among several communities. It’s
a multi-faceted exercise including such things as standards use
and development, creation of virtual systems providing glue between
other systems, and building federations with agreements regarding
common services.
SSDOO is actively working in all these areas to benefit the
space science community. Our personnel actively participate in
standardization activities and these standardization activities
contribute to the development of reusable models. Use of these
standards and reusable models can shorten design and development
timelines, increase modeling consistency, and reduce mission
risk. SSDOO participation in Virtual Observatory activities,
for example, allows SSDOO to share its experience and allows
all the parties to share in work of the others and to efficiently
and productively use its resources. SSDOO is also the source
of several common tools and formats used within the space community.
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NASA Standards ( http://standards.nasa.gov/)
GSFC Standards ( http://standards.gsfc.nasa.gov/)
NASA/Science Office of Standards and Technology (http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/nost/ )
ISO Archiving Standards ( http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/nost/isoas/)
CCSDS ( http://www.ccsds.org/)
CDF ( http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cdf/cdf_home.html)
FITS ( http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/)
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