EIF info day 25.06.2008. Towards the National Interoperability Framework of Spain – The challenge of being specific

1. IDABC EIF Info Day 2008 - Brussels
IDABC EIF Info Day 2008 - Brussels
Towards the National Interoperability
Scheme of Spain – The challenge of being
specific
Miguel A. Amutio
Ministerio de Administraciones Publicas
Spain
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2. IDABC EIF Info Day 2008 - Brussels
Contents
• Law 11/2007 – National Interoperability Scheme
• Adoption by Royal Decree
• Governance
• Main interoperability issues
• Interoperability instruments:
• Standards
• Common infrastructures and services
• Reutilization
• Work is in progress
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3. IDABC EIF Info Day 2008 - Brussels
Law 11/2007 – art. 42
National Interoperability Scheme
• Set of criteria and recommendations on security, preservation, and
standardization of information, formats and applications.
• To be taken into account by public administrations (P.A.) so that their
technological decisions guarantee interoperability.
• To be considered:
• recommendations from EU,
• current technological situation of Public Administrations,
• existing e-services,
• use open standards and, as appropriate and in complement, standards which are of
general use among the public.
• To be developed with the participation of all public administrations.
• To be adopted by Royal Decree.
• To be kept updated.
• Law 11/2007 Action Plan -> Development of National Interoperability Scheme.
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Adoption by Royal Decree
• To be adopted by Royal Decree: -> Legal text
• Language and style. Clear and direct statements.
• Mandatory issues vs recommendations and orientation.
• Structure: Contents of main body / annexes.
• Not including theoretical or methodological content.
• A clear and limited scope.
• Not trying to solve all issues of interoperability from
start.
• Procedures to reach objectives.
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Governance
• Lifecycle: first adoption, maintenance and following updates.
• Scope of the National Interoperability Scheme.
• Relationship with other instruments (Nat. Security Scheme).
• Compliance:
• In the context of usual practice in control within Public Administrations
• To be considered:
• Show compliance (logo/mark)
• Verification of compliance
• Follow up
• Consequences on non being compliant.
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Main interoperability issues
• From interoperability background and principles to specific
statements on:
• Types of interaction, interoperability dimensions, interoperability chain
• Standards
• Common infrastructures and services
• Reutilization
• + specific attention to:
• Accessibility
• Multilinguism
• Electronic identity, authentication and signature
• e-document, e-proceeding, a-archives + preservation of information
• Semantic interoperability
• Organizational interoperability
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Interoperability instruments:
Standards
• “Use open standards and, as appropriate and in complement,
standards which are of general use among the public”.
• To be considered:
• A catalogue of standards: structure, standards, attributes,
• Definition of the procedures to govern the catalogue:
• How to structure the standards catalogue.
• Which standards should be in the catalogue.
• How to assign attributes to each entry (mandatory,
recommended, etc.)
• How to manage the lifecycle of standards in the catalogue.
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Interoperability instruments:
Common infrastructures and services
• The role of common infrastructures and services in
interoperability.
• A catalogue of common infrastructures and services for
interoperability.
• To be considered:
• Which infrastructures and services should be in the catalogue.
Lifecycle.
• How to assign attributes (mandatory, recommended, etc.).
• Which information of each entry is needed by potential users in
terms of organizational, semantic and technical interoperability.
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Interoperability instruments:
Reutilization
• L 11/2007, art. 46.2: The General State Administration, through
a technology transfer centre, shall keep a general directory of
applications for reutilisation, and shall provide technical
assistance for the free reutilisation of applications ...
• L 11/2007, art. 45: Applications owned by P.A.s may be declared
as open source.
• Role of reutilization in interoperability.
• To be considered:
• Licensing conditions of applications and information.
• Types and specific licenses to be used.
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Work in progress
• An instrument to support the development of
eGovernment.
• Work is in progress so the result might differ substantially
of what is being presented here :)
• Learning from the development of EIF v2 and providing
feedback.
• To take into account the recommendations made by EIF
v2 to national interoperability frameworks.
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Thank you very much
for your attention
Miguel A. Amutio
Ministerio de Administraciones Publicas
Spain
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