TIMAPS is an online questionnaire aiding public services to assess and enhance technical interoperability, ensuring alignment with the European Interoperability Framework (EIF). It is an EC solution.

Owner

DIGIT, Interoperable Europe Initiative

Supra-national authority

Contact information

IMAPS action - Interoperable Europe public policy initiative, DEP programme, Directorate-General for Informatics (DIGIT), European Commission

Technical Interoperability Maturity Assessment of a Public Service

What is the solution about?

TIMAPS is a user-friendly online questionnaire, designed as a self-assessment tool to assist public service owners to evaluate key technical interoperability aspects of their digital public service.

Technical interoperability focuses on the technical aspects of linking information systems and services. It includes aspects such as interface specifications, interconnection services, data integration services, data presentation and exchange, syntactic definitions, etc. Technical Interoperability is usually associated with hardware/software components, systems and platforms that enable machine-to-machine communication to take place. The interoperability of information systems is essential in providing integrated government services.

On completion of the survey, the public service owners receive tailored feedback and recommendations on how to further improve their service in terms of technical interoperability.

TIMAPS serves complementary to the IMAPS survey and its use is recommended in conjunction with IMAPS, to vertically assess the behavioural aspects of a digital public service, from the technical behavioural interoperability viewpoint.

What are the benefits of TIMAPS?

TIMAPS enables public service owners to evaluate, improve and consider key interoperability aspects of their public service, looking at the context of their Service Delivery (D) and Service Consumption (C), assessing:

technical behavioural interoperability specifications of the data, information and knowledge delivered and consumed;
technical behavioural interoperability capabilities that enable the delivery and consumption of services, data, information and knowledge;
technical behavioural interoperability manifestations of the public service delivering and consuming services, data, information and knowledge.