e-Government Interoperability and Metadata

Frameworks Overview & Strategy

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John Borras Assistant Director

e-Government Technology Group Office of the e-Envoy

Cabinet Office

Office of e-Envoy

• Part of Cabinet Office• Report to Cabinet Office Minister• Approx 200 staff• Responsible for delivery of UK’s e-

Government Strategy– delivering citizen services– modernising government– promoting e-commerce

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e-Government Metadata

Framework

(e-GMF)

Version 1 May ‘01

Overview & Strategy

Rationale for Metadata Framework• Information is the fuel for the new economy

• Information is a key asset for government

– in UK this has been under recognised

and under exploited

• Getting to the right info – fast - holds the

key to efficiency and effectiveness in

government as well as serving the citizen• Metadata is the means of achieving that

objective

Metadata Framework Headline Decisions

• Adoption of the Dublin Core for UK Government– use 15 simple DC elements

• Additional elements to support government information and records management

• Development of e-Government Metadata Standard (e-GMS)

• Construction of a pan government thesaurus/controlled vocabulary

• Implementation Strategy – UK Govtalk

Which Additional Elements?• Records Management

– Audience (AGLS)– Location– Preservation– Disposal

• Data Protection Act

• Freedom of Information Act

• Content Rating (Internet Watch Foundation) ?

e-Government Metadata Standard• Element Set to be fully defined

– with two levels of refinements

– obligation and repeatability

– encoding schemes

• to be tested in 6 sites

• then mandated and included in e-GMF v2

• baseline XML Schema

Pan Government Thesaurus

• Stella reporting tomorrow morning on our work on controlled vocabularies

UK GovTalk Provides• e-Government Metadata Standard

• XML Schemas agreed for use across the public sector

• Government Data Standards Catalogue

• Training and awareness

• Toolkits

• Best Practice/Case Studies/FAQs

• RFC and RFP on a global basis

www.govtalk.gov.uk

e-GMF Compliance (1)

The e-GMS applies to all intradepartmental systems and the interactions between:

– UK Government and citizens

– UK Government and businesses (world wide)

– UK Government and wider public sector– UK Government and foreign governments

(UK/EC, UK/US etc)

e-GMF Compliance (2)

• The e-GMF is mandated for all– new systems – outward facing legacy systems

• Recommended for all other systems

e-GMF – Next Steps

• e-GMS to be mandated after testing

• Finalise XML schema to support the e-GMS

• Develop pan government thesaurus

• Version 2 to be published Autumn 2001

• Develop compliance regime

Thank you

john.borras@cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.ukTel no. +44 20 7276 3101