The Building trust in the public record policy recommends agencies assess their interoperability maturity based on business and stakeholder needs. This includes identifying interoperability maturity gaps and planning to address them (action 11).
The potential of your agency's information assets (records, information and data) to be shared and re-used depends on their quality, discoverability, and overarching management.
To achieve this potential, your agency needs to build interoperability across a range of themes – business, security, legal, semantic and technical.
Building interoperability means you can exchange information and data between different systems. It is dependent on clear, shared expectations for the context and meaning of data across systems.
Data governance and management is the foundation for building interoperability. It supports standardisation and management to facilitate discoverability and sharing. It is an essential component of information governance, particularly in data-centric agencies.