In the sense that

05:27 Dec 24, 2023 

you would have

- first a general / potentially ambiguous proposition that could be interpreted in may ways

- followed by "in the sense of..."

-and then a clarification how this general proposition should be interpreted in that particular occurrence.

Hardly some rare / exotic turn of phrase, you get exactly the same in French and Serbian, used the same way.

04:55 Dec 24, 2023 

situations where information is not found in the database could be interpreted erroneously as meaning more than it should
=>
if no information about some activity by someone can be found in THE database (a specific one amongst the "interoperable databases") you could interpret that either as meaning:
- what's for sure: there is no record to be found [= how you should interpret it]
- or you can add all sort of assumed meanings, like "no activity occured as none was recorded" - a quite typical methodological mistake - [in which case it would be "interpreted erroneously as meaning more than it should"].

the part after "in the sense that" states explicitly why it would be wrong to give a "not found" search result "a meaning more than it should have":

"the person may or may not have performed a particular activity"

That part is clear

What is missing is the reason why this error in interpreting a "not found" search result would have anything to do with a set of databases being "interoperable" or not, or with other "ways of cooperating".

Knowing that would help to get a better overall understanding, but it makes no difference regarding "in the sense of ..."

15:15 Dec 21, 2023 

Since / inasmuch as