TECHNICAL REPORT SEMICOLON : STATE OF THE ART REPORT NO 2008-0996 DET NORSKE VERITAS DET NORSKE VERITAS TECHNICAL REPORT Date of first issue: Project No: DET NORSKE VERITAS AS 1. December 2008 Approved by: Organisational unit: 1322 Høvik Jon Ølnes Norway Principal Engineer Tel: Client: Client ref.: Fax: http://www.dnv.com NO 945 748 931 MVA Summary: Report No: Subject Group: 2008-0996 Indexing terms Report title: Keywords Service Area Semicolon: State Of The Art Market Sector Work carried out by: Terje Grimstad, Per Myrseth, Henrik Smith- Unrestricted distribution (internal and external) Meyer, Lasse Udjus, Hans Solli-Sæther, Dag Belsnes, Tore Christiansen, Riitta Hellman, Birger Unrestricted distribution within DNV Møller-Pedersen, Audun Stolpe, Arild Waaler, Jim Yang. Limited distribution within DNV after 3 years Work verified by: No distribution (confidential) Date of this revision: Revision No: Number of pages: <rev> 143 © 2002 Det Norske Veritas AS All rights reserved. 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Semicolon_SOTA_v1.0 DET NORSKE VERITAS Report No: 2008-0996 TECHNICAL REPORT Table of Contents Page 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.............................................................................................................3 2 INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................3 2.1 Norwegian public ICT policy............................................................................................... 3 2.2 Research directions in Semicolon......................................................................................... 5 3 ABOUT THE SEMICOLON PROJECT.........................................................................................6 4 CHARACHTERISTICS OF NORWEGIAN PUBLIC SECTOR ....................................................7 5 NORWEGIAN ORGANISATIONS ...............................................................................................9 5.1 Public policy........................................................................................................................ 9 5.2 Ministry of Government Administration and Reform (FAD) ................................................ 9 5.3 Ministry of Justice and the Police (JD)................................................................................. 9 5.4 Ministry of Trade and Industry (NHD)................................................................................. 9 5.5 Statistics Norway (SSB)..................................................................................................... 10 5.6 Tax Authorities.................................................................................................................. 10 5.7 Health sector...................................................................................................................... 10 5.8 Brønnøysund Registre Centre (BR).................................................................................... 10 5.9 Norwegian Mapping Authority (Statens kartverk – SK) ..................................................... 11 5.10 DIFI - Agency for Public Management and eGovernment .................................................. 11 5.11 NorStella - Foundation for e-Business and Trade Procedures ............................................. 12 6 INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND INITIATIVES.....................................................12 6.1 IDABC EIF2.0 Draft - European Interoperability Framework ............................................ 12 6.2 AIF - Athena Interoperability Framework .......................................................................... 14 6.2.1 Relations between EIF and AIF.................................................................................. 16 6.3 United States Federal Enterprise Architecture .................................................................... 16 6.4 Interop-VLab – a source for information about European projects on interoperability ........ 19 6.5 National European programmes ......................................................................................... 20 6.6 Semic.eu............................................................................................................................ 21 6.7 SemanticGov ..................................................................................................................... 21 7 INITIATIVES AND BEST PRACTICES IN NORWAY..............................................................22 7.1 Public sector ...................................................................................................................... 22 7.1.1 The Register of the Reporting Obligations of Enterprises ........................................... 22 7.1.2 SERES....................................................................................................................... 22 7.1.3 Altinn......................................................................................................................... 23 7.1.4 Volven.no................................................................................................................... 23 7.1.5 Norway.no (Norge.no)................................................................................................ 25 7.1.6 MyPage (MinSide)..................................................................................................... 25 7.1.7 LOS ........................................................................................................................... 25 7.2 Research ............................................................................................................................ 25 7.2.1 eGovMon - eGovernment Monitor ............................................................................. 25 Page i Reference to part of this report which may lead to misinterpretation is not permissible. Semicolon_SOTA_v1.0 DET NORSKE VERITAS Report No: 2008-0996 TECHNICAL REPORT 8 METRICS, ROI, OBSTACLES AND OTHER FUN STUFF........................................................26 8.1 Quality Assurance of major Norwegian public investment projects .................................... 26 8.2 Interoperability barriers...................................................................................................... 27 8.3 Measurements and metrics................................................................................................. 27 8.3.1 Requirements to measurement of interoperability ....................................................... 27 8.3.2 Requirements to approach for interoperability ............................................................ 28 8.3.3 Cost-benefit analysis / methods / metrics.................................................................... 29 8.3.3.1 Norwegian government guidelines.......................................................................... 29 9 LAW AND LEGAL CONDITIONS.............................................................................................30 10 BEST PRACTICE INTERNATIONAL........................................................................................30 10.1 UN eGovernment survey 2008 ........................................................................................... 30 10.1.1 E-Government readiness rankings .............................................................................. 30 10.1.2 PartII: “From e-Government to Connected Governance” ............................................ 33 10.2 Denmark............................................................................................................................ 35 10.3 Australia ............................................................................................................................ 35 10.4 Research ............................................................................................................................ 37 10.4.1 ATHENA (EU FP6)................................................................................................... 38 10.4.2 GENESIS (FP6) ......................................................................................................... 41 10.4.3 FUSION (FP6)........................................................................................................... 41 10.4.4 Current EU Research focus in Research Framework Programme 7 (FP7, 2007-2013). 42 10.4.4.1 COIN.................................................................................................................. 43 10.4.4.2 CUMMIUS......................................................................................................... 43 10.4.4.3 DIVA ................................................................................................................. 43 10.4.4.4 MASTER ........................................................................................................... 44 10.4.4.5 NESSI 2010........................................................................................................ 44 10.4.4.6 OASIS................................................................................................................ 45 10.4.4.7 SHAPE............................................................................................................... 45 10.4.4.8 SYNERGY........................................................................................................