Using Joinup as a catalogue for

interoperability solutions

March 2014 PwC EU Services

Learning objectives

By the end of this module, you will have an understanding of:

What is Joinup and the Interoperability Solutions on Joinup

Why it can be beneficial for solution owners to catalogue their interoperability solutions on Joinup

How solution owners can use Joinup as the authoritative place for presenting and managing their interoperability solutions

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“Joinup supports e-Government professionals to share best-practices and find, share, re-use, develop and implement interoperability solutions, such as specifications and software.”

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/

Outline

1. What is Joinup and the Interoperability Solutions on Joinup?

2. Why having your solutions catalogued on Joinup?

3. Browsing through the Interoperability Solutions on Joinup

4. Propose your repository

5. Add solutions using the form or the bulk import

6. Edit or delete your metadata descriptions

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• A multi-purpose platform:

o Interoperability observatory

o Communities of interest around interoperability

o Collaborative work environment

o Catalogue of interoperability solutions

• Aims to facilitate the sharing and re-use of interoperability

solutions made for public administrations.

• Involves interoperability professionals from all over Europe,

and even outside of Europe.

• Funded by the ISA Programme.

What is Joinup?

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• Browse and find interoperability solutions

• Publish interoperability solutions

• Coaching service to ensure high quality interoperability solutions

What is the Interoperability Solutions on Joinup?

It is a federated catalogue, containing thousands of interoperability solutions relevant to public administrations for developing public services.

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What is the Interoperability Solutions on Joinup?

• Save time and reduce cost and effort through the reuse of interoperability solutions

• Direct your search via relevant descriptive metadata

• Search interoperability solutions in one central repository

• Get legal and practical guidelines on reusing interoperability solutions

• Get feedback through communities of interoperability solutions and exchange experiences

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Why using the Interoperability Solutions on Joinup to search for interoperability solutions?

• Raise visibility and reuse of your interoperability solutions by making them easier to find

• Improve the quality of your interoperability solutions based on users’ feedback

• Save time by focussing on your projects instead of solving technical problems, i.e. hosting, webpages, forums, …

• Build your own domain specific communities

• Get support for sharing your interoperability solutions on Joinup

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Why using the Interoperability Solutions on Joinup as an authoritative source for your interoperability solutions?

Browse the Interoperability Solutions on Joinup

• All the repositories are clearly catalogued on Joinup

• Potential reusers can explore each repository to see which solutions it includes

• Joinup also provides an advanced search For more details about the advanced search https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/svn/adms/trainings/Introdu

ction_to_advanced_search_functionality.pptx

Proposing your repository

In the “Interoperability solutions” section, click on “Propose your…” and then “Federated repository”

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Once you have proposed your repository, it first needs to be approved by the moderators

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You can add your interoperability solutions using the form available on Joinup. • If you are a solution owner, you can

add your solutions directly to the catalogue on Joinup.

• If you are a repository owner and

you have created your repository on Joinup, you can directly add your solutions to your repository.

Adding interoperability solutions using the form

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Adding interoperability solutions using the bulk import functionality

• Using the form for adding your solutions’ metadata descriptions can be convenient if you have only a few solutions to catalogue on Joinup.

• For a higher number of solutions, you may want to use the bulk import functionality of Joinup.

• Note that the file used for the bulk import and including your solutions’ metadata descriptions have to be in a RDF format compliant to ADMS-AP

See how to generate ADMS-AP RDF file with Open Refine https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/svn/adms/trainings/Introduction_to_Open_Refine_RDF_tool.pptx

See how to cleanse RDF file with SPARQL https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/svn/adms/trainings/Introduction_to_metadata_cleansing.pptx

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Bulk import of your solutions’ metadata descriptions

Once you have prepared the RDF file containing the ADMS-AP-compliant metadata descriptions of your solutions, you can start bulk importing it. On your repository page click on the button “Upload metadata”

For more details about the import capability https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/svn/adms/trainings/EFIR_i

mport_and_export.pptx

Once you have uploaded the file, you can check if the file as been validated as fully compliant with ADMS-AP or if there are inconsistencies that need to be fixed.

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Bulk import of your solutions’ metadata descriptions

For more details about the import capability https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/svn/adms/trainings/EFIR_i

mport_and_export.pptx

Edit or delete your solutions on Joinup

Once your solutions are catalogued on Joinup, you can still easily edit or even delete them.

Conclusion

Using Joinup as a catalogue for interoperability solutions:

Improves the visibility of your solutions on search engines

Allows a user-friendly exploration of interoperability solutions

Is easy to use through the bulk import or the online form

Increases the reuse of your interoperability solutions

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Related learning resources

• Introduction to ADMS-AP

• How to import and export ADMS-AP conform metadata of interoperability solutions on Joinup

• Introduction to the Open Refine RDF tool

• Introduction to metadata cleansing using SPARQL

• Introduction to the advanced search functionality of EFIR

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Disclaimers

1. The views expressed in this presentation are purely those of the authors and may not, in any circumstances, be interpreted as stating an official position of the European Commission. The European Commission does not guarantee the accuracy of the information included in this presentation, nor does it accept any responsibility for any use thereof. Reference herein to any specific products, specifications, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favouring by the European Commission. All care has been taken by the author to ensure that s/he has obtained, where necessary, permission to use any parts of manuscripts including illustrations, maps, and graphs, on which intellectual property rights already exist from the titular holder(s) of such rights or from her/his or their legal representative.

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