Enabling End-user-driven Data Interoperability-A Design Science Research Project

摘要

Today, end-users have many opportunities to consume Internet-based services relevant for their private and professional life. However, the easy consumption of new services is not reflected on the data side. The availability of new services potentially increases pre-existing data interoperability issues since the same data is scattered over even more locations. Looking at the simple example of basic personal contact data, users need to manually re-enter again and again this data to be able to register and consume services. The research described in this paper is the preliminary result of an ongoing design science research project addressing the topic of end-user-driven interoperability. We present a software artifact and the results of an experiment evaluating contact data interoperability within multiple Internet-based services.