Semantic technologies boost the value of data by making it computer-friendly. They allow data to be accessed, linked, and automatically analysed by IT systems, thereby paving way for smart IT applications and artificial intelligence. The EU institutions, agencies and bodies are invited to reuse
14/07/2021
Interview with Cristina Marco, Rafael Santisteban Responsible and Manuel Mata from Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències (CACSA) - Generalitat Valenciana, Spain.
Ciudad de las Artes y de las Ciencias (CACSA) has used our IMAPS solution to evaluate existing digital public services and the design of the “Sede Electrónica de CACSA”, an authentication portal and a catalogue of digital public services of CACSA.
25/06/2021
The Legal Interoperability team of the European Commission is on the mission to raise awareness, promote and share knowledge on digital-ready policies and the support of new technologies in policy activities and build the Better Regulation for Smoother Implementation (BLSI) community around those topics.
28/05/2021
Interview with Vicky Margariti (Head of e-Government and Interoperability department – NIFO National Representative at the General Secretariat of Digital Governance and Simplification of Administrative Processes, Ministry of Digital Governance); Nikos Vasilakis (Head of Unit, Strategic Planning & Coordination Directorate for Digital Governance) and Iraklis Varlamis (responsible for the development of the National Register of Procedures Diavlos).
23/04/2021
Interview with Raf Buyle, Information Architect, Informatie Vlaanderen
Catalogue of Services is enhancing the interoperability and the exchange of information about public services
29/03/2021
Interview with Cristina Cosma, Isa von Kalben and Ruben Narzul, programme managers of the Interoperability Unit of DG DIGIT.
The European Commission is currently evaluating the ISA² programme and the European Interoperability Framework to present a reinforced public sector interoperability policy. We have talked to three programme managers of the Interoperability Unit to learn more about shaping the new policy in a multidisciplinary team.
25/01/2021
Natalia Aristimuno Perez, Head of Interoperability Unit, DG DIGIT, shares her experience from the past year and views on the future of interoperability.
2020, what a year! Everyone in the Interoperability unit went through many challenges, both on professional and personal
26/11/2020
Interview with Milagros Calvo Vergez (DG TAXUD) and Veerle Cumps (Secretariat-General) by Commission en direct (CEND), the Commission’s internal online magazine
EdiT, the European Commission instance of LEOS that will replace LegisWrite, was recently tested in Directorate-General for Taxation and Custom Union (DG TAXUD). CEND and LEOS team spoke to one its first users, policy officer Milagros Calvo Vergez (DG TAXUD), and to Veerle Cumps (Secretariat-General), who supported and guided all the Directorate-Generals (DGs) involved in this test phase.
14/08/2020
Dr. Fotis Fitsilis, Head of the Department for Scientific Documentation and Supervision, Scientific Service of the Hellenic Parliament
LEOS is a free software tool that facilitates the editing/reviewing of legislative texts and generates legislation produced in an interoperable format. Dr. Fotis Fitsilis, member of the Scientific Service in the Hellenic Parliament, used LEOS to educate the future generations of public officials.
23/07/2020
Interview with Dr. Karmen Kern Pipan, Head of Data Management Department, and Tadej Gabrijel, Head of Electronic Services Development Department of Ministry of Public Administration, Republic of Slovenia
Karmen Kern Pipan and Tadej Gabrijel have used IMAPS for assessing one digital public service provided by the Slovenian Ministry of Public Administration.
23/06/2020
Interview with Pieter van Everdingen, Community Manager at Platform Linked Data Netherlands (PLDN)
Semantic interoperability is strongly connected to the concept of linked data, being one of its core components and allowing heterogenous data sources to connect via the Internet. In this interview, we discussed with Pieter van Everdingen, the Community Manager from Platform Linked Data Netherlands, which is an open network community of experts aiming to stimulate further adoption of linked data.
18/05/2020
Interview with Peter Axelsson, BIM Strategist at the Swedish Transport Administration
Semantic interoperability is an area explored for a number of years. For the last decade, SEMIC plays a significant role by offering technical solutions widely adopted by a number of stakeholders. So far, all approaches were focused on how to implement semantic interoperability in public administrations, i.e., concentrating on providing government-to-government solutions, with less focus on the needs originated from the private sector.
06/05/2020
Interview with Sebastiaan Taes, The Federal Service BUS at BOSA
The Federal Service Bus (FSB) of the Belgian Federal Public Service Policy and Support Directorate General Digital Transformation (FPS BOSA DT), wants to be the gateway to the most important (authentic) data sources of the Belgian federal government.
17/04/2020
Alice Vasilescu, Community Manager for LEOS, external consultant European Commission, on behalf of the LEOS Team
A new version of LEOS, the open source software for legislation drafting, is available on Joinup. This third major release brings new features and improvements concerning version management, comparison view, structured annexes, templates configuration improvements and many more.
20/03/2020
Interview with Tomáš Šedivec, Department of the Chief eGovernment Architect, Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic
Tomáš Šedivec has used IMAPS for assessing a number of digital public services provided by public administrations in the Czech Republic, such as the Czech Ministry of Health. He shared with us his IMAPS user experience and explained the benefits of IMAPS for his organisation.
23/01/2020
Interview with Carlos Fernandez, Project Manager at Ministry of the Presidency, Relations with the Parliament and Democratic Memory, Spain
LEOS is a software tool helping those involved in drafting legislation, which is usually a complex process requiring efficient online collaboration. Comments, suggestions, version control, co-edition, everything is possible with LEOS. The software was released as open source and has developed a growing community around. One of the active community members and a user of LEOS is Carlos Fernandez from the Spanish Ministry of the Presidency, Relations with the Parliament and Democratic Memory.
22/01/2020
Dr. Raul Abril, IMAPS Project Officer, Interoperability Unit, Directorate General for Informatics, European Commission
Today, the interoperability maturity of digital public services provided by EU public administrations scores on average at “essential” level. This means that the services implement the key interoperability aspects in a basic way: they use one digital channel, partial pre-filling or make a service catalogue publicly available.
17/12/2019
Benoît ORIGAS, Project / Programme / Service Manager, Team Leader, Data services Unit – Collaboration sector, Directorate General for Informatics, European Commission
EUSurvey is a secured platform for designing and conducting small to large online surveys. The service is multilingual, flexible and widely accessible for consulting stakeholders on a specific issue, conducting satisfaction surveys or collecting event registrations. EUSurvey is also the platform used for public consultations organised by the European Commission (see Have your say) allowing Europeans to have their voice in Commission initiatives.
25/11/2019
Miguel Alvarez Rodriguez, Programme Manager, Interoperability Unit, DG Informatics, European Commission
Public service provision is at the centre of digital government. Citizens and businesses need to interact with public administrations in various personal or business situations from a birth certificate to pension benefits. To enable these interactions online, public authorities often develop portals or digital government information systems. In context of international collaboration and exchange of information, such models create interoperability issues with various consequences. To solve these issues, we defined a common metadata model Core Public Service Vocabulary Application Profile.
24/10/2019
Pavlina Fragkou, Programme Manager, Interoperability Unit, Directorate General for Informatics, European Commission
Open government data are a valuable source of information that is publicly available to anyone for analysis and reuse. However, even though governmental data are open, they are often represented and published in an unstructured way without following any specific guidelines. The ISA² Programme 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 (CPEV) that is a common data model for describing public events.