Share and reuse interoperability solutions for public administrations

The IT department of the Finnish city of Tampere will try out OpenOffice, a free and open source office suite. The free suite of office productivity tools will be installed alongside the proprieta ...

The European Commission is setting the example by making its software for electronic procurement available as open source, said Michel Barnier, the European Commissioner for Internal Market and Se ...

Using open source software to build open data application is pragmatic and logical, says Pieter Colpaert, board member of the newly founded Belgian chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation. The OK ...

Today, version 1.00 of the Core Business, Core Person and Core Location Vocabulary has been officially released under the ISA Open Metadata Licence v1.1. What are core vocabularies? Core Voca ...

Today, the RDF Schema of the ADMS.F/OSS v0.3 sofware metadata vocabulary was released for public review. An anlysis of the properties and classes in the RDF Schema learns that 69 pe ...

Sending of an electronic invoice across borders should be simpler than sending it by post. However, this is often not the case. Exchanging electronic business documents is subject to several barri ...

Today, version 1.00 of the Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS) is officially released under the ISA Open Metadata Licence v1.1. ADMS is a common way to describe semantic interoperability ass ...

The European Commission has reached an agreement with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on the sustainability of key specifications to facilitate interoperability, across borders and sectors, be ...

As part of Action 25 of the Digital Agenda, the European Commission will analyse how the market situation could change if the significant market players were legally forced to disclose interoperab ...

  IPM (Interactive Policy Making) is an open source tool for creating online surveys. It provides user-friendly questionnaires in 22 languages. The developers have released its new version 3 ...

The city council of Limerick, Ireland's third-largest city, is making more and more use of free and open source, to rid itself of IT vendor lock-in. It began three years ago by switching to th ...

Dear all I'm happy to announce the new stable version of GNU Health 1.4.4 This version has great new features, such as  Drug Pregnancy  Categories, Prescription Decision Sup ...

The Berlios open source software repository will continue to operate, says Jörg Schilling, responsible for Berlios at Fraunhofer Fokus, a research institute in the German capital Berlin. Berl ...

The services offered by the Joinup collaborative platform will be unavailable on Friday 9 March between 12 and 14 hrs. The site's software will be upgraded during that time. Joinup is built o ...

European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes, responsible for the Digital Agenda, wants public authorities to include IT standards in their procuring of software and IT solutions. She says this ...

Today, a Working Group initiated by the ISA Programme has released three e-Government Core Vocabularies on Joinup for comments by the general public. These Core Vocabularies aim to reduce the prob ...

On 26 January, the Joinup team launched an online survey to obtain your feedback on how to improve Joinup. Click here to complete the survey and share your feedback. It should not take more t ...

Cutting the IT budgets of public administrations will push them to use more open source software, expects Daniel Melin, a procurement specialist at 'Statens Inköpscentral', a Swedish ...

All laptops used by European officials should have either LibreOffice or OpenOffice installed, two open source suites of office applications. This suggests the mayor of the German city of Munich, ...

On December 9, the Government Digital Service has opened for business.  The Government Digital Service (GDS) has been set up to deliver world class digital products that meet people&rsq ...