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What is an ontology's role in system interoperability?

  • A.It provides a network protocol for transmitting knowledge
  • B.It verifies that the two systems produce the same answers
  • C.It supplies shared meanings so systems can exchange knowledge
  • D.It converts between the data formats two systems use

Answer: C

Two systems can exchange triples freely and still misunderstand each other unless they agree what the terms mean, and an ontology fixes that agreement. Format conversion and transport are separate layers that assume the agreement rather than providing it. Answer verification is a different exercise. That syntactic interoperability is easy and semantic interoperability is hard is the lesson every integration project rediscovers.

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