Introduction

This document was created by the USECASE Technical Committee of the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium. This document is a survey of the present state of resource interoperability for a representative sample of calendaring, groupware, and project management applications. “Interoperability of resources” within the domains surveyed is a level of functionality that allows the communication of resource information between applications that is humanly useful though not necessarily identical for both systems.

The term resource is defined thus (taken from the “Calendaring and Scheduling Glossary of Terms,” version 1.0, October, 2006, from CalConnect):

Resource — Shared equipment, materials, or facilities that can be scheduled for use by calendar users.

Examples include: conference rooms, computers, audio visual equipment, and vehicles.