5. Islands of Automation
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Systems Work Well Internally
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Organizations automate their own forms, workflows, rules, and decisions
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Systems use locally selected Data Models, Vocabularies, platforms, and technologies
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Governance reflects the requirements and Authority of each Domain
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Individual implementations become optimized for their immediate mission
Federation Remains Difficult
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Equivalent information uses different Structures and Vocabularies
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Identical terms may represent different concepts
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Different terms may represent the same concept
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Interpretation rules remain embedded in implementation-specific software
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Interfaces and mappings require repeated bilateral negotiation
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Human intervention remains necessary at organizational and System boundaries
Operational Consequences
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Integration costs increase as the number of participating Systems grows
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Changes in one System can invalidate established mappings
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Provenance and Interpretive Authority become difficult to trace
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Results may change without a visible change to the exchanged Data
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Each new federation risks becoming another custom implementation
Local automation does not automatically produce federated interoperability.
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