General Information
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The Catalogue of Services Action aims at enhancing the interoperability of existing portals and catalogues of services: given that administrations have developed solutions listing the various services available without coordinating this with each other, the access to this information and the aggregation of this scattered data is very complicated. To achieve this, a range of activities are put in place that together constitute the service offering provided by the Catalogue of Services Action.
Controlled vocabularies are clearly defined lists of names and concepts that ensure proper understanding when used for labelling, indexing or categorising. Therefore, the controlled vocabularies allow to represent fundamental features of a concept in a fashion neutral way.
The Catalogue of Services Action analyses and recommends the use of external controlled vocabularies as part of CPSV-AP. When no standard or well-maintained controlled vocabulary exists, the Action creates its own recommended lists together with the community. Business and life events are examples of such controlled vocabularies. More recently, the Action has proposed an initial classification of public services.
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The Catalogue of Services Action develops and maintains data specifications for describing public services. The Core Public Service Vocabulary Application Profile (CPSV-AP) captures the core concepts used to describe public services independently from their context (financial services, tax, water supply, ...).
Public administrations and service providers can therefore use this approach to describe their services and guarantee a level of cross-domain and cross-border interoperability at European, national, and local level.
The CPSV-AP has been created and is maintained by a Working Group composed of Member States and EU institutions representatives, experts, and academia in the field of semantic interoperability and open data. So far, 7 countries are compliant with CPSV-AP and 8 others are using CPSV-AP as inspiration to develop their own data models.
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The Catalogue of Services Action has helped various administrations and organisations in the past years by providing support to achieve their goals. From our experience, we have identified several case studies listed below and described further in subsequent pages. If you are interested in one particular case study (listed or not), don't hesitate to contact us. The following situations are therefore presented to you :
To facilitate the creation, validation, harvest, and exchange of public service descriptions, 4 different tools have been developed by the Catalogue of Services Action as open source proof-of-concepts. Please note that there is functional and technical documentation for each tool also available on GitHub.
The Public Service Description Editor is a content management system that allows public administrations to create and manage CPSV-AP descriptions of public services.
The Public Service Description Harvester allows public administrations to obtain the data faster and more efficiently, easing creation of an integrated view on life & business events and public services provided within a specific country or region.
The Public Service Description Creator is a web form where public administrations can create CPSV-AP descriptions of public services in a fashion that is user-friendly and intuitive.
CPSV-AP Data Validator allows you to check whether your public service descriptions meet the requirements of the CPSV-AP.
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