Semantic Interoperability From The OpenTravel Lexis
The OpenTravel standard provides semantic interoperability that facilitates accurate data interpretation and processing between trading partners and applications. This is achieved through the “OpenTravel Lexis” that provides an unambiguous, vocabulary-based common information exchange model that ensures exchanged information is consistently understood by all parties—which may be business to business systems and/or internal enterprise applications.
The foundation of the OpenTravel Lexis is a collection of (best practice-based) pre-defined XML information facets (tag names) that are distinctly related to the travel & leisure segments and used in combination to represent key travel industry concepts. The modular design and structure of the OpenTravel specification—in combination with its OpenTravel Lexis foundation—naturally provides extension capabilities in both schema and XML objects. For example, implementers may include proprietary business logic at a schema message level (OpenTravel 1.0 Schema Messages) or at an object level (OpenTravel 2.0 XML Objects.)
OpenTravel maintains this robust vocabulary because XML by definition provides a data exchange format that doesn’t intrinsically reveal the meaning of its data payload. Accordingly, when two parties exchange information in an XML format, humans or computers can easily “read” the files, but correctly deducing the true meaning is not straight forward. Although humans are able to interpret semantics but computers do not have this capability. OpenTravel’s focus on our XML Vocabulary ensures that your XML schemas stay in line with both the existing and emerging vocabulary being spoken by the travel & leisure industry.
A key advantage of the OpenTravel’s Lexis as the specification foundation, is that the vocabulary itself is maintained by the OpenTravel community (including OpenTravel members and specification implementers). This means that the vocabulary stays relevant and is automatically incorporated into schema, XML objects, sample instances/ services and artifacts—providing developers with faster system design/ development and implementation cycles.
The OpenTravel Lexis is one component of the OpenTravel (open standard) Specification that also includes schema messages & XML object libraries; best practices for schema design, implementation & use; schema design & governance processes; and implementation tools. The OpenTravel Specification complies with globally used naming and XML design standards (such as W3C), ensuring peak backwards compatibility and long-term, consistent project implementations.
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