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Interoperability in public sector presentation at e gove 2010 lausanne
1. Interoperability in Public Sector
- How Use of a Lightweight Approach Can
Reduce the Gap Between Plans and Reality
- Svein Ølnes, Western Norway Research Institute (Vestforsk), Norway
3. Content
Main question answered
What a difference a little semantics can do
The troublesome gap between plans and reality
Los – An example of a lightweight approach
Conclusions and further research
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4. Main question answered
There is a huge gap between plans and reality when it
comes to functional interoperability in public sector
Are the ambitions too high?
Part of the solution: A lightweight approach
“as simple as possible”
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7. Gap between plans and reality
European level (Codagnone and Wimmer, 2007):
Although a lot of attention is already been paid to interoperability,
the gaps in this storyline were assessed as very high and relevant
according to the eGovernance model.
Norway
Framework for service oriented architecture proposed 2007
Not much has happened since
The Government is struggling with how to deal with this issue
In the mean time a lot of trials and errors (for instance the Seres I
and II example by the National Registry Centre (Brønnøysund
Register Centre)
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8. Interoperability - definitions
Definition 1 (EIF 1.0):
Interoperability means the ability of information and communication
technology (ICT) systems and of the business processes they support
to exchange data and to enable the sharing of information and
knowledge.
Definition 2 (EIF 2.0):
Interoperability is the ability of disparate and diverse organisations to
interact towards mutually beneficial and agreed common goals,
involving the sharing of information and knowledge between the
organizations via the business processes they support, by means of
the exchange of data between their respective information and
communication technology (ICT) systems.
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9. Increasing complexity in frameworks
EIF 1.0 (2004)
Organisational interoperability
Semantic i.o.
Technical i.o.
EIF 2.0 (draft, 2008)
Revision of EIF 1.0 started
in 2006 – still no final update
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10. Comparison to the development of HTML5
xhtml 1.0
HTML 4.01 expressed in xml syntacs
xhtml 1.1
Pure xml
xhtml 2.0
a shiny new and bright standard “relieved from the HTML sufferings”
full support for the semantic web
no backwards compatibility
a disaster!
HTML5
the browser developers in charge
support for Microformats rather than the full semantic web
pragmatics rather than theoretical perfection
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11. Los – A lightweight approach to interoperability
Los – Norwegian for “Navigator at sea”
aided navigation in a sea of information
A thesauri for public services
controlled vocabulary arranged as a thesauri
ca. 400 keywords + ca. 1 500 synonyms, outdated terms ++
faceted classification
expressed in the Dublin Core metadata standard
Exchange of information between sectors and organisations
Cross sector: Between government agencies and municipalities
Between organisations in the same sector
Primarily used in the municipalities
www.vestforsk.no 100 (of 430) municipalities uses Los in their portals
ca.
12. Los – structure
Tema = Theme
Emneord = Keyword
Nettressurs = Net resources
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13. Los – examples of use in municipality portals
Bergen
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14. Los – examples of use in municipality portals
Sørum
Førde
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16. Conclusions and further research
We are waiting for guidelines (ref. EIF 2.0 and other
frameworks)
In the mean time: Shed light on the good examples
Is there too little emphasis on “simple” solutions?
“Top down” or “bottom up”?
How does lightweight approaches go together with more
demanding interoperability initiatives and frameworks?
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17. End of presentation
Thanks!
Contact information
Svein Ølnes – sol@vestforsk.no
www.vestforsk.no