General information
Name of the solution:
Solution's owner: DIGIT, Interoperable Europe Initiative
It is a user-friendly online questionnaire, designed as a self-assessment tool to assist public service owners to evaluate key interoperability aspects of their digital public service.
Not only can SIQAT be used to assess the interoperability of any public service – from Open Data portals, and e-voting platforms, to public procurement services, and much more – it is applicable to services at all levels of government (international, national, regional, and local).
The Structural Interoperability Quick Assessment Toolkit implements the following:
Principles
Interoperability layers
Structural Interoperability Quick Assessment Toolkit implements the following EIF recommendations as explained below:
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Recommendation 1 | Subsidiarity and proportionality
SIQAT is a self-assessment tool, designed for public service owners to evaluate key structural interoperability aspects of their digital public service.
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Recommendation 2 | Openness
Question C.2.11 of the SIQAT questionnaire assesses to which extent is the software available in a software repository (e.g., GitHub) to interested parties for download.
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Recommendation 6 | Reusability
Question C.2.15 of the SIQAT questionnaire assesses to which extent will the shared solution be a part of a third-party infrastructure.
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Recommendation 9 | Technological neutrality and data portability
Question C.2.13 of the SIQAT questionnaire assesses to which extent is the software portable to a different technical infrastructure.
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Recommendation 15 | Security and privacy
Question C.2.13 of the SIQAT questionnaire assesses to which extent are security measures and procedures applied to the software.
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Recommendation 28 | Organisational interoperability
Question B.5 of the SIQAT questionnaire assesses to which extent are organisational agreements set in place to share the service.