Dutch Standardisation Forum - "Comply or explain"-standards
Contains all standards from the 'Comply or Explain' list of the Dutch Standardisation Forum
Standardisation
Last update: 19/05/2014
Codelist for bio-geographical regions, Europe 2011
Europe 2011 - The biogeographical regions dataset contains the official delineations used in the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) and for the EMERALD Network set up under the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern Convention) Biogeographical boundaries were obtained from the EU Member States and from the Emerald Network countries. These were merged together to produce a European wide map of the biogeographical regions independent of political boundaries. A number of the regions were updated during the work under Article 17 of the Habitats Directive (92/43…
Standardisation
Last update: 30/09/2021
VocBench 3 v10.0 is now available
VocBench is a web-based, multilingual, collaborative development platform for managing and sharing reference data and controlled lists of codes and terms used to organise information. With persistent URIs, managed concepts are correctly referenced in any domain. Developed in a context neutral way as an open-source project, it can be deployed or further developed for any sector wanting to have authentic reference data/codes made available for information systems and human users. Reference data, such as code lists and authority tables, means data that are used solely to characterise or relate to...
Open Source SoftwareStandardisation+3 topics
Last update: 16/04/2021
Dutch study on open source communities
To increase the competence in the usage of new technologies, a Digital Government Directorate under the Ministry of the Interior is being formed in Netherlands. At the same time, the Dutch government has a set out to using more open source within the government, summarised under the phrase “Open, unless…”. In order to increase the understanding of how the shift to open source can be used within the public sector, the Ministry of the Interior contracted the consultancy ANNE for a report. The research team were given four main questions to be investigated and the task to develop policy…
Open Source SoftwareOpen Source Software+4 topics
Last update: 15/04/2021
Open source toolbox released in the Netherlands
As part of its Digitisation Strategy, the Dutch government launched its new open source toolbox, which includes useful information for civil servants to switch to open source, as well as a communication platform to engage with each other. In the wake of the Dutch Digitisation Strategy 2018-2021 (Nederlandse Digitaliseringstrategie 2018-2021, NDS) launched by the State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, the Minister of Justice and Security, and the State Secretary of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, on 17 April 2020 the latter sent a letter to the House of Representatives…
Open Source SoftwareCollaboration+4 topics
Last update: 07/04/2021
“We liberated our own data from the silos of the market”
Citizens expect well-functioning digital services from their government. Until recently, municipalities in the Netherlands were held back in providing these services by fragmented systems that would not exchange data. If a citizen request would require data from two systems, a lack of interoperability meant this data had to be duplicated in multiple systems and could go out of date. Dutch municipalities came to together to change this. Today, these municipalities start collecting the fruits of their labour initiated years ago. From 1 April 2021, Dutch municipalities are expected to start…
Open Source SoftwareStandardisation+4 topics
Last update: 28/06/2021
Pilot : Tailoring the public service description editor to the Dutch national data model (Samenwerkende Catalogi)
Technical documentation about this pilot activity can be found on the dedicated GitHub repository. Introduction The Netherlands wanted to have a simple way of creating public service descriptions that...