# A community tool for interoperability

**URL:** <https://forum.solidproject.org/t/a-community-tool-for-interoperability/4291>\
**Category:** Interoperability\
**Created:** [May 7, 2021, 11:07am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/a-community-tool-for-interoperability/4291 "2021-05-07T11:07:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/aschrijver/32/463_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/aschrijver)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 7:13am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/a-community-tool-for-interoperability/4291/11 "2021-05-15T07:13:16Z")

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Having different fields is one thing, but even representing data with same semantic meaning can be very hard. There’s this W3C internationalization best-practice on representing [Personal names around the world](https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names.en?changelang=en) (here [discussed on HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8003686)). Things get very complex very quick.

Anyway, I came here just to mention a different take on the matter. A different approach to tackling similar problem area, by using Lenses:

> **[Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses](https://www.inkandswitch.com/cambria.html)**
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> Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?

I found this on [fediverse here](https://mastodon.social/web/statuses/105061646836185322). Now, they’re not using Linked Data, but JSON Schema. But they have a large section on their finding with some interesting general observations wrt Interoperability.

Shape expressions are quite intriguing too. Thank you for posting @RubenVerborgh article on the matter, @NoelDeMartin. Hope to find some time to look deeper into this (Just re-read an article by @joepio Ontola also mentioning shapes: [Full-stack linked data: lessons from building an RDF web app](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/full-stack-linked-data-lessons-from-building-an-rdf-web-app/3532)).

BTW, I also cross-linked this thread: [Solid Application Interoperability Draft - Presentation videos - Fediversity - SocialHub](https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/solid-application-interoperability-draft-presentation-videos/1739?u=aschrijver)

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