Background
At the Como eGovernment Conference in July 2003 the Norwegian
Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Ansgar Gabrielsen, invited
to a workshop on data-definitions and metadata at the Brønnøysund
Register Centre. The workshop is a contribution to the European
effort on cooperation in innovation and exchange of good practice.
The theme of the workshop, Semantic Interoperability, is important
in this setting.
The main goals for eGovernment programmes are to develop
user-friendly and efficient services to the public and the
business community. Semantic Interoperability is seen as an
important prerequisite for obtaining services such as:
- Establishing electronic interfaces between the business
community and public sector facilitating exchange of data
and information gathering
- Common repositories of metadata, widely accessible and
serving many purposes
- One-stop shop web-bases services for access to data and
metadata
In Norway, several electronic solutions are founded on core
registers, offering services related to identification of
data, definitions of data and metadata to public sector agencies
as well as to businesses and individuals. The Brønnøysund
Register Centre has been a main contributor at the national
level in this field. Many challenges remain, however, at a
national as well as at a pan-European level.
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