Tools for Everyone

This session looks at two tools that help to manage public sector metadata:

Scribe: Peter K

1. Estonian Public Service Metadata Editor

Hannes Kiivet, Head of interoperability solutions department, Estonian Information Systems Authority

(See slides for majority of presentation)

Speaker note: Estonia is a small country and maybe it is not possible to use the same approach for a larger country.

Pilot project was run for 4 months. For overview see pilot description document:

Publishing a machine readable file on the website of the agency is difficult even if they managed to create the file. Problems with file encoding and serving. Invalid JSON was created.

Code is open sourced. See links in presentation slides for more details.

2. German XML for public administration "XÖV" tool chain in action

Sebastian Sklarß, ]init[

Lutz Rabe, KoSIT (Koordinierungsstelle für IT-Standards)

(See slides for majority of presentation)

Context for standards implementation: No country wide person identifier. German states (16 Länder) largely autonomous in internal organization. 11000 municipalities.

Demo of the InteropBrowser: http://interopbrowser.xoev.de/#/

Code lists and more are published on https://www.xrepository.de/

What is your definition of standard?

It-specification for data exchange in german public sector. Not a formal standardization. Top -down enforced specification with a legal framework for support.

Is there a service catalog for the web services implementing the specifications?

No.

Is open data (e.g. address data) from public sector orgs using the same specifications?

This is for internal (intra-agency) use only. Main challenge is to be interoperable in Germany.

The XML chain is heavily invested in in many industries. Would it be possible to change to a linked data workflow incrementally?

Internal use case so not sure about the applicability. We are sharing code lists.

How are services deployed? Do we need an infrastructure to run a similar system (in Greece?)? An ESB?

Estonia: distributed approach. Maybe there is no need for ESB:s in government?