Recommendation 45 | Conceptual model: External information sources and services

Where useful and feasible to do so, use external information sources and services while developing European public services.

Solutions

List of all available solutions that implement this recommendation

	As the information contained in the eCertis database is provided and updated by the different Member States, it leverages on 'external information sources' for the provision of this information service.
	Making public sector data available for external use is covered in EULF Blueprint Recommendation 8. EULF Blueprint Recommendation 17 contains integrated governance and guidance on use of APIs to link to both internal and external information sources.
	As Joinup is a 'library of solutions' which can be useful to Public Administrations, it can be considered as an external information source that can be consulted by public administrations while developing public services.
	LEOS offers a possibility to connect to external Law repository (like EUR-LEX in the case of EU laws) to fetch part of the legal text and import it into the drafted act.
	Ref2link fosters the use of external repositories by establishing direct deep links, crossing sites and domains.
	TES Cartography is an external information source of reusable trans-European solutions.
OIMAPS v1.0.0	Question C3 of the Service Consumption section of the OIMAPS questionnaire assesses the administrative level (local, regional, national, trans-European) of which the public service consumes data, information and knowledge from other client services.