Case Study : Making catalogues interoperable

 Problem statement

Every region and municipality has its own way of describing public services and maintaining or publishing those descriptions. This can lead to one public service being described completely differently by public administrations.

This flexibility can make the reconciliation of descriptions simply impossible: hindering regions, countries or the EU to exchange the right information, for example required by the SDGR, or to build advanced functionalities such as automated service discovery based on structured information.

Goal

As a public administration, I want to create, edit and exchange harmonised and structured public service descriptions according to European specifications or requirements.

Approach and Support

The Catalogue of Services Action can help you harmonise your descriptions

Click here to find out how the Catalogue of Services Action contributed to make the catalogue of Flanders (Belgium) interoperable on a national and European level.