1. Interoperability in Public Sector - How Use of a Lightweight
Approach Can Reduce the Gap Between Plans and Reality - Svein lnes,
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 www.vestforsk.no
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 www.vestforsk.no
5. What a difference a little semantics can do
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6. What a difference a little semantics can do
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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
(Brnnysund Register Centre) www.vestforsk.no
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. www.vestforsk.no
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 www.vestforsk.no
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 www.vestforsk.no
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 www.vestforsk.no
13. Los examples of use in municipality portals Bergen
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14. Los examples of use in municipality portals Srum Frde
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15. Classification and Categorisation www.vestforsk.no
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? www.vestforsk.no
17. End of presentation Thanks! Contact information Svein lnes
[email protected] www.vestforsk.no