EIF Perspective attributes of SIMAPS

The SIMAPS implements the following:

SIMAPS implements the following EIF recommendations as explained below:

• Recommendation 1 | Subsidiarity and proportionality

  SIMAPS is a self-assessment tool, designed for public service owners to evaluate key semantic behavioural interoperability aspects of their digital public service.

• Recommendation 5 | Transparency

  Question D11 of the Service Delivery section of the SIMAPS questionnaire assesses whether the public service makes its data, information and knowledge delivered clearly understood by its end users.

• Recommendation 7 | Reusability

  Questions C5 of the Service Consumption section of the SIMAPS questionnaire assesses the readiness of a public service to consume data coming from other MS by examining the means under which this data consumption takes place.

• Recommendation 9 | Technological neutrality and data portability

  Questions D13 and D14 of the Service section of the SIMAPS questionnaire assess the level of reuse of existing, published data for the purpose of other, new applications. The greater the level of data reuse by other public services and by other public administrations, the better, as it ensures sustainable (semantic) interoperability among them.y systems compliant with e-accessibility specifications.

• Recommendation 14 | Inclusion and accessibility

  Question D1 of the Service Delivery section of the SIMAPS questionnaire assesses the semantic behavioural interoperability specifications of the data, information and knowledge delivered by a public service, by determining how easily the data delivered by another public service can be accessed by systems compliant with e-accessibility specifications.

• Recommendation 16 | Multilingualism

  Question D5 of the Service Delivery section of the SIMAPS questionnaire assesses to what extent the data delivered by a public service are being made available in more than one language.

• Recommendation 23 | Interoperability governance

  Question D2 of the Service Delivery section of the SIMAPS questionnaire assesses at what extent the public service owners undertake activities towards establishing  open data semantically aligned at national or EU level.

• Recommendation 30 | Semantic interoperability

  SIMAPS assesses the behavioural aspects of a digital public service, from the semantic interoperability viewpoint. Question D7 of the Service Delivery section of the SIMAPS questionnaire assesses whether semantic formats (Linked Data, RDF) are being used as a data format for data delivered by the public service.

• Recommendation 31 | Semantic interoperability

  SIMAPS assesses the behavioural aspects of a digital public service, from the semantic interoperability viewpoint. Question D7 of the Service Delivery section of the SIMAPS questionnaire assesses whether the semantic formats used by a public services are defined bilaterally between MSs, under EU/international level standards/specs or, based on the semantic interoperability specifications listed in ELIS (e.g. Resource Description Framework - RDF).

• Recommendation 32 | Semantic interoperability

  Question D3 of the Service Delivery section of the SIMAPS questionnaire assesses whether the public service delivers semantically aligned data at the same sector, a cross-sector level, at a national level or at a trans-EU level. Furthermore, question C5 of the Service Consumption section of the SIMAPS questionnaire assesses the readiness of a public service to consume data coming from other MS by examining the means under which this data consumption takes place.

• Recommendation 41 | Open data

  Questions C2 and C3 of the Service Consumption section of the SIMAPS questionnaire assess the semantic behavioural interoperability specifications of the data, information and knowledge consumed by a public service, by examining  the extent of reusability of public data by another public service. The more the integration of public data to the public service, the better for establishing smooth interoperation among them.

• Recommendation 42 | Open data

  Question C4 of the Service Consumption section of the SIMAPS questionnaire assesses the consumption of Linked Open Data sets from a public service. The higher the integration of LOD, the more advanced the public service is in terms of semantic alignment with the data.

• Recommendation 44 | Catalogues

  Question D10 of the Service Delivery section of the SIMAPS questionnaire assesses how easily the data delivered by a public service are being discovered either by another public service or by an end-user. It focuses on the means that publish the data and trigger/enable the awareness of the consumers (public service or end-user).
  Furthermore, question C14 of the Service Consumption section of the SIMAPS questionnaire assesses the mechanisms that the public service has in place to effectively and efficiently discover the already published data.