该文档支持互操作性从数据/信息交换范式发展到抽象级别递减的知识共享，从IT概念级别（语义协调）开始，通过业务领域概念级别（商定的服务功能级别合作）、领域级别（跨领域合作）直至个人上下文（基于技能的最终用户协作）。该文件确定了一个模型和框架，用于统一表示现有或计划中的系统，特别侧重于信通技术支持的业务系统。互操作性和集成参考架构支持本体协调或知识协调，以实现任何复杂程度的系统、标准和解决方案之间的互操作性和集成，而不需要不断地适应/修改这些规范。该方法可用于分析、设计、集成和运行任何类型的系统。为了实现高级互操作性，灵活、可扩展、业务控制、自适应、基于知识、智能的健康和社会生态系统需要遵循面向系统、以架构为中心、基于本体和策略驱动的方法。 表示系统不同视图的语言，如本体语言，如公共逻辑（CL）（ISO/IEC？24707[24]）和Web本体语言（OWL）[25]——特别是OWL？2[26]（万维网联盟（W3C？），用于建模和集成业务流程的语言，如业务流程建模语言（BPML）（OMG？），以及OMG的统一建模语言（UML，也指定为ISO/IEC？19505[27]），用于不同的ISO/IEC？10746？（所有部分）视图的基于表示样式超出了本文档的范围。

This document enables the advancement of interoperability from the data/information exchange paradigm to knowledge sharing at decreasing level of abstraction, starting at IT concept level (semantic coordination) through business domain concept level (agreed service function level cooperation), domain level (cross-domain cooperation) up to individual context (skills-based end-user collaboration). The document defines a model and framework for a harmonized representation of existing or intended systems with a specific focus on ICT-supported business systems. The Interoperability and Integration Reference Architecture supports ontology harmonization or knowledge harmonization to enable interoperability between, and integration of, systems, standards and solutions at any level of complexity without the demand for continuously adapting/revising those specifications. The approach can be used for analysing, designing, integrating, and running any type of systems. For realizing advanced interoperability, flexible, scalable, business-controlled, adaptive, knowledge-based, intelligent health and social ecosystems need to follow a systems-oriented, architecture-centric, ontology-based and policy-driven approach. The languages for representing the different views on systems such as ontology languages like Common Logic (CL) (ISO/IEC？24707^[24]) and Web Ontology Language (OWL)^[25] – specifically OWL？2^[26] (World Wide Web Consortium (W3C？), languages for modeling and integrating business processes like Business Process Modeling Language (BPML) (OMG？), but also OMG’s Unified Modeling Language (UML, also specified as ISO/IEC？19505^[27]) based representation styles for the different ISO/IEC？10746？(all parts) views are outside the scope of this document.