Research e-Labs

Well - maybe you don’t yet. It’s one thing to promote standards for exchanging information and transactions across the web, quite another to manage the result.

Within the New Zealand government domain, a framework is taking shape that aims to manage key objects and make them available. Object types include XML (and other) schemas for data exchange, agency or industry defined coding schemes, web service definitions and many others.

Work has concentrated on developing practical governance concepts around devolved stewardship. How to make sure you have the right version of a schema, who decides what that is and who’s responsible, how to agree on best practice in a fast changing environment and so on.

A reference group have developed three key governance documents that are out for review and feedback. The principles document sets out the essential features and rules for managing and sharing technical resources based around common standards. The operations guide sets rules for practical governance including the use of supporting tools such as the pilot object registry being run by State Services Commission. The registry can be viewed here: http://registry.e.govt.nz. The Communities Guide attempts to define the main technical communities of practice that need to be involved in governance arrangements and that need to share technical information.

The consultation process is being run by Standards New Zealand who will receive and collate all the feedback. To view the documents and provide input please use the following link:

http://www.standards.co.nz/web-shop/?action=browseDrafts&draftTypeId=3&mod=drafts

The consultation period ends on Friday 9 May 2008, after which the documents will be updated and issued under the New Zealand e-Government Interoperability Framework.

Even if you’re not interested in making submissions, at least take a look at the documents - they’re short. Eventually these concepts and practices will make a very real difference for people working on government systems. The ability to easily find, understand and use the interfaces between systems in an all-of-government context is the key to efficiently implementation.

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