About the 2020 ISA² action on Innovative Public Services (future : Future of CEF eDelivery and API guidelines for government This project is about the following specific activities (major outputs) :For 2020, this action has, among others, the objective of developing relevant legal, organisational and technical artefacts trialled through an extension and combination within the 2020 ISA2 Innovative Public Services (IPS) action: blockchain based transactions’ log and a REST-based profile (a.k.a. APIs approach), that support new patterns of data access by request and data sharing.The work related to the REST-based profile will take as input the JRC study on APIs4DGov that analysed the API technological landscape and its standards and technical specifications for general purpose use. This aims to support the definition of stable APIs for digital government services, avoiding the need to develop ad-hoc solutions and helping stakeholders in the identification and selection of such solutions. The scope of the ISA² action will be to develop the following: innovative technical approaches leveraging blockchain and REST APIs. This activity has the objective of developing and piloting relevant technical specifications and artefacts through the use by CEF eDelivery of a blockchain-based transactions’ log offered by the CEF EBSI building blocks, on the one hand, and the definition of a REST-based profile as a candidate profile for future inclusion in CEF eDelivery, in order to support new patterns of data access and data sharing, on the other. Should the pilots be successful, the CEF eDelivery building block will be enriched with these novel technologies. Every element will be modular so that it can be used in combination with the existing eDelivery AS4 profile or on its own.
- API guidelines for government: a set A set of guidelines and specifications for establishing interoperable REST-based APIs for service invocation and publication of both open and protected data. Sample library implementation for API’s as well as software supporting central/core services such as service catalogues and service discovery could be also in scope.Extension of eDelivery with other building blocks and innovative technical approaches such as blockchain and APIs. Should the pilots be successful, the CEF eDelivery building block will be enriched with a REST-based profile and a blockchain-based log of transactions. Every element will be modular so that it can be used in combination with the existing AS4-profile (of eDelivery) or on its own.
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