Getting Standards to Emerge,
or, How to Build a Recipe Book While Everyone's Busy Cooking
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SVG versionTrack: Government, Integration, Core Technologies
Audience Level: High Level View
Time: Thursday, November 18 at 14:45
Keywords: Local Government, Public Administration, Interoperability, Methodology, Best Practice
Abstract:
The UK Local e-Government Standards Body was established late in 2003, and tasked with compiling an XML based data standards catalogue for use by UK Local Authorities. This is to be achieved by mapping existing standards, identifying gaps to be filled, advising and supporting local Councils, their partners and suppliers on the interpretation and adoption of standards, and establishing processes for developing new standards as required. However, UK Local Authorities have been developing e-services for several years already, so this new effort has to take place in a context where many projects are already under way, using a variety of business models, and with diverse approaches to XML interoperability design. An additional factor is the traditional tension between central and local government, which has led to patchy and inconsistent adoption of the national UK e-Government Interoperability framework.
This paper is an account of the methodology developed by CSW Group Ltd and the LeGSB to tackle this situation, together with discussion of the work to date, and lessons learned. (We had hoped to include discussion of some experience with the ebXML registry/repository model, however at the time of writing the e-Government Unit's registry pilot is not yet in place.)
