THE RESEARCH ON INFORMATION INTEROPERABILITY AND SHARING MODEL BASED ON ONTOLOGY DESCRIPTION

This paper expounds the semantic conflicts existing in distributed information systems. In order to iron out the conflicts between data coming from different data sources and facilitate the interoperability among distributed, heterogeneous data sources, we put forward a novel method: using ontology to describe concepts in different sites and structuring the information. It allows for a more disciplined design of database, and it facilitates sharing and reuse. Then we also put forth an interoperable and sharing model for remote education. Though this model is put forward for remote education, it also can be applied to other application domains, such as Web-based databases, digital library, data warehouses, data mining, etc.