Background and goals
Interoperability of information
All government services, actions and decision-making are essentially based on information and knowledge. Public administrations must maintain and use information in a cost-effective, secure manner and publish it as openly as possible for different actors to use. However, information can only be managed if we know exactly what we are managing.
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The semantic interoperability of information is realized when the meaning of information that moves between different actors is maintained and understood, in consensus, between all the actors involved. Technical interoperability means the coordination of data transfer techniques.
Interoperability Method and Platform
The Finnish interoperability project, a national application and implementation of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF), was a two year project that concluded at the end of year 2018. The project developed and released both the Interoperability Method and the technical Interoperability Platform.
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The Interoperability Platform and the tools provide an unique ID, URI, for each resource. In that manner the resources can be referenced anywhere by using that URI.
The tools of the Interoperability Platform
The three major plus one tools provided by the Interoperability Platform are the following:
- The Terminologies tool, a browser-based application for creating and managing information domain specific terminologies and concepts.
- The Data Vocabularies tool, a browser-based application for managing and publishing data vocabularies.
- The Reference Data tool, a technical platform for publishing and sharing common public sector code lists and reference data.
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- Comments tool, supporting the other three tools, a browser-based application for acquiring and collecting comments for specified terminologies, code lists
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- and data vocabularies.
The tools are described in more detail in the following chapters for comments. Information about the named selection will be sent to all required stakeholders, and they can comment the selected resources via this tool. The tool also makes it easier for editors to create a summary of all the received comments.
Only authorized users from organisations registered to use the tool can create and edit information. This is controlled by the access control functionality of the platform. In addition to admin users, each tool has an editor role, where the user is allowed to produce and edit content in that specific tool.
The Interoperability Platform supports multilingual development. Currently, the user can choose between a Finnish or an English interface. The actual data can be presented in various languages, as the user is able to select and tag any language code for their data and enter the data in that language.
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