Presentation

1. EUROPEAN COMMISSION Directorate-General for Informatics
Per-Olav Gramstad
Programme Manager – National Expert on
Interoperability in eGovernment
IDABC
Directorate-General for Informatics
European Commission
The Unbearable Lightness of European
Public Service Interoperability
18 March 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

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Intro
Me
Scandinavian, Norwegian name, Swedish accent and
Danish civil servant
My programme
IDABC, stands for Interoperable Delivery of
European eGovernment Services to public
Administrations, Businesses and Citizens.
My directorate
Directorate-General for Informatics (DIGIT)
effective and efficient use of Information and
Communication Technologies in order to achieve its
organisational and political objectives.

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Why Public Service Interoperability
Sounds and symbols
Measurement
Similarity
Compatibility
Transformability

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Whose Public Service Interoperability
From Policy to Profile
- We shape the tools and the tools shape us
From Public to Private
- The standardisation dilemma
And back
- The waterfall and the rain

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What Public Service Interoperability
Political context
Legal level
Organisational level
Semantic level
Technical level

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How Public Service Interoperability
Agreements
Identification
Negotiation
Selection
$
$
$
Purchasing
Standards & Specifications
Common Assessments Methods
Standards and Specifications
Public Service Delivery acceptance
Requirements
Requirements
Requirements
Requirements
Packaging

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Where Public Service Interoperability
On the borders
Between cultures
Between economies
Between states
Between technologies
In our daily doings

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When Public Service Interoperability
On the borders between states and
technologies
Agreements
Organisational
From Strategy to Profile
Transformability

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European
Public Service Interoperability
Architecture advice
EIS, EIF and CAMSS
Data, Metadata
SEMIC
Infrastructure components
OSOR
EIS
SEMIC
OSOR
EIF
CAMSS

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Strategy - EIS
European Interoperability Strategy
An action plan to address cross-boundary interoperability
aiming at facilitating the implementation of EU policies
and initiatives.
To define, in agreement and cooperation with Member
States, a focused set of concrete actions both at national
and EU level which will improve interoperability of public
services in Europe.
A first version of the EIS is expected to be ready in
October 2009. This will lead to a Communication of the
Commission to the Council and the European Parliament.

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Principles - EIF
European Interoperability Framework
To serve as the basis for European seamless
interoperability in public services delivery, thereby
providing better public services at EU level
To support the delivery of PEGS by furthering cross-
border and cross-sector interoperability
To supplement the various National Interoperability
Frameworks in the pan-European dimension
A second version of the EIF is expected to be ready in
2009. This will lead to a Communication of the
Commission to the Council and the European Parliament.

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Tactics - CAMSS
Common Assessment Method Standards and
Specifications
To initiate, support and coordinate the collaboration
between volunteer Member States.
To share the assessment study results for the
development and the interoperability of Public
Services.
To identify and describe Interoperability challenges in
European Public Service.
Negotiation on and selection of standards and
specifications is outside the scope of CAMSS.

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Assets Management - SEMIC
Semantic Interoperability Centre
The collection and provision of interoperability assets are
the core purposes of SEMIC.
Syntactic assets define common data structures, e.g.
XML schema. Semantic assets, e.g. taxonomies or code
lists, on the other hand, deliver a central terminology to
ensure that data elements are interpreted in the same
way by communicating parties.
The platform provides collaboration tools while a clearing
process safeguards quality standards.

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Assets Management - OSOR
The Open Source Observatory and Repository for European
public administrations (OSOR)
a platform for exchanging information, experiences and
FLOSS-based code for use in public administrations.
international news on Open Source topics
a repository with code and documentation on software
for public administrations
a state-of-the art forge for working together

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Thank you
Per-Olav Gramstad
Per-Olav.GRAMSTAD@EC.EUROPA.EU
EIS
http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7772
EIF
http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7728
CAMSS
http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7407
SEMIC
http://www.semic.eu/semic/
OSOR
http://www.osor.eu/