EIRA is a reference architecture to implement interoperable European digital services. It is based on ArchiMate for modelling. It includes ABBs, views, viewpoints and a Data Space perspective. It is an EC solution.

Owner

European Commission (DG Informatics) - ISA² Programme

Supra-national authority

Contact information

DIGIT-EIRA@ec.europa.eu

About the European Interoperability Reference Architecture

The European Interoperability Reference Architecture (EIRA©) is an architecture content metamodel defining the most salient architectural building blocks (ABBs) needed to build interoperable e-government systems. The EIRA© provides a common terminology that can be used by people working for public administrations in various architecture and system development tasks. The EIRA© was created in the context of Action 2016.32 of the ISA² Programme and is being maintained under the Digital Europe Programme (DEP). The EIRA uses (and extends) the ArchiMate language as a modelling notation and uses service orientation as an architectural style.

EIRA - Updated documentation. New release of EIRA v6.0.0

EIRA v5.0.0 was released on the 10th of May 2022. The release included: (1) Revision of the architecture building blocks (ABBs) taking into account their relevance for the end-to-end design of EU integrated digital public services; (2) Revision of the EIRA views and viewpoints. About a year later, version 6.0.0 of the EIRA has been released, containing the improvement of views, viewpoints, and ABBs documentation. The improvement includes the consistency and comprehensiveness of the information provided. Also, it has been included a Data Space perspective to be aligned with the real-time trends at the EC level. The content of the release has been developed through an agile project management approach. Tickets from EC internal and external stakeholders have been analysed in order to address their feedback and requirements.

The new release includes now significant upgrades and can be considered the state-of-the-art in the interoperability domain for the design of end-to-end interoperable digital public services.

Further information about EIRA v6.0.0 can be obtained in the document "E IRA v6.0.0 Online Documentation".

Related release: Cartography Tool

The Cartography Tool (CarTool©) brings together high level support for the EIRA© as a plug-in for the popular ArchiMate® modelling tool Archi®. It includes both editing features, to model solutions using the EIRA©, and querying features to query an EIRA©-based Cartography of solutions.