SPOCS: A semantic interoperability layer to support the implementation of the service directive

M. Foulonneau, F. Marrinan, N. Karalius, O. Dziamski, T-F. Gordon, H. Hartenstein, S. Rieger, K. Weigend, D. Mitzman, S. Turki, Y. Djaghloul, J-F. Merche

SPOCS: A semantic interoperability layer to support the implementation of the service directive

ECEG 201313-14 JuneComo, Italy

SPOCS - Simple Procedures Online for Cross-Border Services

• 3rd Large Scale Pilot - CIP prog. • Implement and test interoperable eGov. services in the

context of the Services Directive.• Improve quality of cross-border electronic procedures and

points of single contact (PSC) for businesses.

EU Services Directive• procedures necessary to establish or exercise a service in

another Member State can be conducted electronically. • Member States had to establish PSCs, as electronic one-

stop shops for all service providers. • PSCs as intermediaries between the requesting service

provider and the national competent authorities.

Transfer of documents to European administrations in the scope of procedures

Online procedures Including the transfer of data (forms) and documents

Problems: Heterogeneity of documents Multilingual environment Document authenticity (signature and eSafe) Governance and distributed set of services

The SPOCS semantic task force

Henri Tudor PRC, Luxembourg European Business Register, Belgium iTree Group, Lithuania Instytut Logistyki i Magazynowania, Poland Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Federal Office of Administration, Germany Infocamere, Italy

Omnifarious Container for eDocuments (OCD)

1. Payload Layer (document file)

2. Metadata layer, divided into

1. Metadata of the OCD (such as the sender and the receiver of the container)

2. Metadata that represent the document or payload, including in the best case an extraction of the value of information recorded inside the document (e.g., the birthdate for a birth certificate).

3. Authentication Layer

A set of common ontologies (OWL)

Document ontology to represent relations between documents, document types (e.g., birth certificates) procedures and equivalences between 2 documents in the context of a particular procedure

Creating equivalences between documents

Semantic mechanisms allow the system to infer equivalences and in some cases request users only to validate assumptions instead of manually creating them all.

Creating equivalences between documents

Automatic validation of a document

• Technical architecture of components used in Semantic Pilot Lithuania – Portugal

SPOCS semantic validator module

LT PSC eDelivery messagebox.verslovartai.lt

LT Service Provider

PT Competent Authority

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PSC + Competent Authority Portal

LT Tourism Dept.Registry of Travel

Agents and Organizers

Syndication

SPOCS MIDBWP1

Syndication modules

WP3 eDelivery

GW

3rd parties

Message composing

modules

OCD creation module

EBR Web Services

STORK provider

Authenticated person information

WP1 Syndication

modules

SPOCS MIDB

Docs OCDWP3

eDelivery GW

OCD extraction

and validation modules

Document parsing modules

Core SPOCS ontologies and validation engine

Validation rules

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Automatic validation of document and application based on data

• Screenshot of Polish PSC with link to ‘validation document’ (gr. Επικύρωση εγγράφων)

Using semantic data sources

The EBR registry, a set of Web services

Supporting the service directive with open data Editing and writing carried out through the CKAN software in version 1

Modeling of legislation

Investigated in the scope of the Travel Agent case in Poland and Luxembourg with the Carneades software.

Modeled conditions for authorization procedure to support civil servant in decision process.

Cases encoded with the support of Fraunhofer institute

Case study – Travel agent

Travel agent must hold a business permit.

Business permit is granted if:• the person responsible for the

operation or management of the business:

• meets the requirements in terms of qualification and professional integrity;

• can provide proof of mandatory guarantees and insurances;

• and the business has a fixed physical establishment in Luxembourg (no so-called 'letterbox companies').

Logic-like rules for travel agent service delivery authorization in LuxembourgLogic-like rules for travel agent service delivery authorization in Luxembourg

Carneades

Open source & free argumentation system

Web-based, collaborative software tools for:

• summarizing arguments of a debate in an argument graph

• visualizing, browsing and navigating argument graphs

• evaluating arguments• …

Carneades interface

Argumentation map for travel agent business permit

Conclusion

Connections with SEMIC/JoinUp Use of Business Core Vocabulary Experimentation of the Core Public Service Vocabulary Catalogue of European semantic assets (JoinUp), software

components (JoinUp) Towards a catalogue of public services?

eSens (ICT-PSP Pilot A) Towards governance mechanisms for semantic datasets Coherent semantic layer across multiple eGov piloting domains

(eHealth, Business life cycle, eJustice, etc.)

M. Foulonneau, F. Marrinan, N. Karalius, O. Dziamski, T-F. Gordon, H. Hartenstein, S. Rieger, K. Weigend, D. Mitzman, S. Turki, Y. Djaghloul, J-F. Merche

SPOCS: A semantic interoperability layer to support the implementation of the service directive

ECEG 201313-14 JuneComo, Italy

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