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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 focal point and theme of both the Method and the Platform is simple: to provide a common set of tools, guidelines and principles for the Finnish public sector, with semantic/information interoperability across all levels of government being the ultimate practical goal.
The tools of the Interoperability Platform
The three major 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
The tools are described in more detail in the following chapters.
In the near future, a fourth tool will be added to the platform, namely the Comments tool. With this tool, the content providers and editors can collect a selection of terminologies, code lists or data vocabularies 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.
