The Core Public Service Vocabulary Application Profile (CPSV-AP) is a common data model for describing public services offered by a public administration. Learn more in the video interview with Miguel Alvarez Rodriguez, responsible for the ISA² work on the data model.
Citizens and businesses need to interact with administrations in various personal or business situations. To enable these interactions online, public authorities often develop portals or digital government information systems. In context of international exchange of information, such models create interoperability issues. Read how CPSV-AP helps solving these issues, more about the current work and what the next steps are in our blog post.
Black holes, histograms, ethics and storytelling - what do they all have in common? They were all part of mind-blowing presentations that took place in the EU DataViz 2019. It was the first conference in Europe on data visualisation for the public sector. The goal? ‘Serving citizens through better data visualisation’.
The Joint Research Centre published a new study "The role of Spatial Data Infrastructures in the Digital Government Transformation of Public Administrations". It is a first attempt examining the role spatial data infrastructures play in digital government transformation and what could be their role in the future. The study was published under the ISA² ELISE action.
Are you willing to share your experience and good practices around ‘legislation and interoperability’? Contact us! We look forward to getting in touch with you and have a wider exchange on topics such as legislation-as-code or legislation screening for ICT impacts and digital-readiness.
The European Commission launched a new self-assessment tool to evaluate and improve semantic interoperability of any public service. The so-called SIMAPS (Semantic Interoperability Maturity Assessment for Public Services) is now available in its beta version.
A new major release of the DCAT Application Profile for data portals in Europe (DCAT-AP) 2.0.0 has been published. This version implements main change requests to the DCAT-AP version 1.2.1 and introduces a range of updates to align with the World Wide Web Consortium standards. DCAT-AP is a specification for describing public sector datasets to enable the exchange of dataset descriptions between data portals.
The Access to Base Registries Action organised a webinar on 9 October 2019. The aim was to share the progress on a data model/specification (BReg-DCAT-AP) and to open an interactive discussion on data management topics related to the framework on base registries access and interconnection (BRAIF). You can learn more through highlights, recording and presentations.
LEOS is Legislation Editing Open Software developed under the ISA² Programme. The purpose of this webinar is to learn about the latest progress made by the LEOS team, present the roadmap for future work and get to know the community members. Register by 14 November.
Discover the programme and speakers of the first-ever Interoperability Academy Winter School! The event is organised by the ISA² Programme together with the KU Leuven Public Governance Institute in Leuven, Belgium on 11-13 December 2019. The deadline for applications is 4 November.
A fast emerging sector, built by innovative startups leveraging both technological advances and recent reforms to government platforms and registers, GovTech aims to build better services for citizens and better tools for public servants. During the event, visit the ISA² stand in the expo area.
Open government data are a valuable source of information that is available to anyone for analysis and reuse. However, even though governmental data are open, they are often published in an unstructured way without following any specific guidelines. ISA² has developed a solution, e-Government Core Vocabularies, to help public administrations bring structure in their data. One of them is the Core Public Event Vocabulary that is a common data model for describing public events.
Nearly 200 participants attended the SEMIC 2019 Conference on "Linking data spaces for citizens" that took place on 21 October in Helsinki, Finland. An additional 186 people from all over the world followed the event via live stream. The presentations of all speakers and the photos from the conference are now available.
EU DataViz 2019 addresses for the first time the specific needs of the community engaged in data visualisation for the public sector in Europe, bringing together experts, practitioners and solution seekers. You can visit the ISA² stand to learn about interoperability solutions!
The ISA² Programme is organising a session at Web Summit, one of the top technology conferences in the world. It will give the participants an opportunity to learn how to use interoperable solutions to boost sales. The programme representatives will also be present at the common booth of the European Commission.
The use of the EUPL helped the team achieve the objective of having a fully open source-based project. I would highly recommend the use of the EUPL in research projects as it creates a community with a strong philosophy of sharing and compatibility, said Martin Serrano Orozco, Senior Research Fellow / Internet of Things & Stream, National University of Ireland – Insight Centre for Data Analytics.
The organisational and integrated public service governance aspects of interoperability are a crucial element in the development and delivery of digital public services. Ongoing work under ISA² is focused on providing guidance on the implementation of these concepts.
