Appendix

Instantiations of various historic systems and organizational paradigms within the information investment and management landscape.

In the future, we seek to reduce barriers to interoperability in this landscape both vertically and horizontally:

- Vertically, as individuals, communities, and institutions (or agent-based services, on their behalf) wish to conduct business and share assets, schemas, and metadata that span multiple organizational paradigms, or that were initially created in one organizational paradigm, but now need to be used in another.

- Horizontally, as service-providing value chains develop and mature, requiring assets, schemas, metadata, and services – each developed and provided by different service providers – to work together.