Social and Solidarity Economy Web Information Systems: State of the Art and an Interoperability Framework
Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations (JECO), 2014, vol. 12, issue 1, pages 35-52
Mariana Curado Malta, Ana Alice Baptista, Cristina Parente, 2014
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Summary :
This paper presents the state of the art on interoperability developments for the social and solidarity economy (SSE) community web based information systems (WIS); it also presents a framework of interoperability for the SSE’ WIS and the developments made in a research-in-progress PhD project in the last 3 years. A search on the bibliographic databases showed that so far there are no papers on interoperability initiatives on the SSE, so it was necessary to have other sources of information: a preliminary analysis of the WIS that support SSE activities; and interviews with the representatives of some of the world’s most important SSE organisations. The study showed that the WIS are still not interoperable yet. In order to become interoperable a group of the SSE community has been developing a Dublin Corre Application Profile to be used by the SSE community as reference and binding to describe their resources. This paper also describes this on-going process.