2nd cesar highlights report
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Highlights report for the 2nd CESAR workshop held on March 13 2013.TRANSCRIPT
2nd CESAR Workshop Highlights Report Brussels 13 March 2013
In order to realise the full potential of the European single market, Public administrations need to seamlessly exchange information across borders and sectors. The Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations (ISA) Programme of the European Commission addresses this need by promoting
the reuse of interoperability assets - these are agreements such as schemas and reference data used for electronic information exchange. Since the go-live in January 2013, users can explore collections of more than 1500 reusable interoperability assets in 21 federated repositories on Joinup.
The workshop offered participants the opportunity to share their experience and views on how Public Administrations can maximally benefit from collections of reusable interoperability assets.
2nd CESAR Workshop Reaping the benefits of Europe’s collections of reusable interoperability assets
45 participants ...from 18 countries
Types of organisations represented
Austria
Belgium
Latvia
Romania
United Kingdom
France
Croatia
Greece
Finland
The Netherlands
Spain
Sweden
Hungary
Italy
Estonia
Academia 2%
European institution
29%
Non-Profit Organisation
5% Private sector 24%
Public administration
38%
Standardisation body 2%
Slovakia
Portugal
Iceland
Workshop in figures
Workshop Highlights Interoperability Solutions for European public administrations Margarida Abecasis, Head of Unit , ISA Programme of the European Commission
“Interoperability between Public Administrations is the key to face today’s challenges and increase efficiency, transparency and quality of public services. Interoperability requires harmonisation, adoption of common standards and frameworks.”
Margarida Abecasis introduced the workshop by presenting the work carried out by the ISA Programme and giving an overview on the challenges faced by Public Administrations to provide end-users with interoperable, qualitative and sustainable services.
Margarida Abecasis highlighted the role of interoperability as a key enabler for Public Administrations to join forces, bringing down e-barriers and overcoming financial constraints. In this context, Margarida also brought to the attention of the audience the European Interoperability Framework and other initiatives of ISA Programme.
Workshop Highlights Round table - Partner organisations’ testimonials Taking stock of the current collections of interoperability assets included in the federation on Joinup.
Greek Interoperability Catalogue - Thodoris Papadopoulos
RIHA, the Estonian catalogue of public sector information systems - Priit Parmakson
Belgian Interoperability Catalogue – Bart Hanssens
Publications Office of the EU - Pascale Berteloot and Willem van Gemert
Yhteentoimivuus.fi, Finnish Interoperability Catalogue - Anne Kauhanen-Simanainen
Listpoint – the open platform for code list standards - David Mitton
W3C Standards and Technical Reports - Phil Archer
Dutch Standardisation Forum – “Comply or explain“ standards - Marijke Abrahamse
Exploring interoperability assets on Joinup - Stijn Goedertier
Workshop Highlights Saving money through reuse Strategies to enhance reuse of interoperability assets in e-Government system development.
The Large Scale Pilots (LSPs) aimed at developing practical solutions tested in real life government service cases across Europe. The LSPs have worked independently and developed several building blocks to facilitate interoperability. These building blocks are not only reusable pieces of software, but also reusable models, datasets, and methodologies. Documenting these building blocks using ADMS is a initial step to address the issue of governance on tools, models, datasets, etc.
Reusing interoperability assets for Europe’s large-scale pilots Muriel Foulonneau, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor
The INSPIRE Directive (2007/02/EC) aims to create a spatial data infrastructure that will facilitate spatial data access across borders in an harmonised way. In this context technical guidelines and codelists for supporting the implementation of INSPIRE directive are available on Joinup. The re-use of such assets can improve cross-sector data interoperability as exemplified in the European Register for railway infrastructure (RINF) and Location Core Vocabulary pilot cases.
A Reusable INSPIRE Reference Platform and INSPIRE Assets Robin Smith and Andrea Perego, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission - JRC
Many public administrations are locked into their ICT systems because of proprietary technology. The impact of such lock-in is that Public Administrations have less choice on ICT suppliers. As a consequence Public Administrations tend to pay high prices and become highly dependent of proprietary technology suppliers. In this context, as part of Action 23 of the Digital Agenda, DG CONNECT is promoting the adoption of Open ICT Standards and exchange of best practices on how to better use standards in order to resolve lock in.
Against lock-in: building open ICT systems using standards Anne-Marie Sassen, DG CONNECT
Workshop Highlights Reusable tools for generating ADMS-conform descriptions Existing tools for maintaining collections of interoperability assets and producing ADMS-conform descriptions..
The ISA Programme launched the Joinup ADMS-enabled federation in January 2013. Since then 21 partner organisations have made more than 1500 semantic assets; i.e. data exchange models, taxonomies, data definitions and reference data discoverable via single search on Joinup. Joining this federation does not have to be difficult. The ISA Programme has developed a spreadsheet-based tool that can be used for describing semantic assets with ADMS. Several partners highlighted this tool as a strong point of the 3-steps approach to join the ADMS-based federation.
Join the ADMS-enabled federation in 3 steps Michiel De Keyzer, PwC EU Services
Joinup already supports the ADMS-enabled federation of semantic asset repositories making available more than 1500 semantic assets. However, the reuse promoted by the ISA Programme through Joinup goes beyond that. Member States which do not have an interoperability portal can host their semantic assets on Joinup or use Joinup open source code to build their national portals. Additionally, Joinup provides services to help Public Administrations hosting and maintaining collections of interoperability solutions on Joinup.
Host and maintain your collection of assets in Joinup Szabolcs Szekacs, DIGIT - ISA Programme
Workshop Highlights Looking ahead – expanding our universe Future actions to support public administrations to increase interoperability in all interoperability layers.
It is not an easy task to find the right standards, specifications, tools or services to build interoperable ICT systems. The ISA Programme has launched the ADMS-enabled federation, a solution that helps Public Administrations to easily explore such assets on Joinup. Currently only semantic and open software assets’ catalogues are available through this federation. However the ISA Programme plans to extend ADMS and the federation on Joinup to other types of assets such as legal, organisation and technical assets. Joinup will then host a complete European Federated Interoperability Catalogue (EFIR).
Expanding towards other interoperability layers Alice Vasilescu, PwC EU Services
The Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS) was first developed by the ISA programme and published by the European Commission. Since March 2012, further development is being undertaken by W3C’s Government Linked Data Working Group (GLD WG). The GLD WG aims at providing standards which help governments publish their data as effective and usable Linked Data using Semantic Web technologies. In this context, the ADMS is currently published as First Public Working Draft and signals its move to the Recommendations Track. By the end of March 2013 ADMS is going to be a W3C Working Group Note.
Status of ADMS in the W3C GLD Working Group Phil Archer, W3C
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https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/42446
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