New industrial initiatives such as Industrie 4.0 rely on digital end-to-end engineering across
the entire product lifecycle, which in turn depends on the ability of the supporting software
tools to interoperate. A tool interoperability approach based on Linked Data, and the OASIS
OSLC standard, has the potential to provide such integration, where each software tool can
expose its information and services to other tools using the web as a common technology
base. In this paper, we report on our negative findings when attempting to use existing …