The institution defines technical standards for interoperability technologies to foster the consistency and compatibility of ICT systems.
Guideline code
ICT_03400
Mechanism
Mechanism
- In elaborating the institutional standards for technical interoperability, the ICT unit, with the assistance of specialized units where applicable, should cover:
- Standard technologies on networking and data communications, covering data transport and related protocols such as TIC/IP, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, SOAP and others used in Internet-based applications;
- Data integration and interoperability, covering technologies to describe data structure and formatting which improve the effectiveness of data exchange operations. Some of the main standards are Unicode, XML, XML Schema, XSL, S/MIME, RDF (for web resource description) and OWL (for semantic relationships of concepts);
- Enterprise services, which enable data exchange between business applications and implementation of reusable services and shared processes. Reusable services should be implemented using web services and should follow the standards of WSDL, UDDI, SOAP, WS-* and the interoperability-oriented recommendations of WS-i. Service composition and orchestration should be implemented using WSBPEL. Enterprise platforms, which enable integration of heterogeneous applications, should be based on ESB systems. The overall integration architecture should be service-oriented architecture (SOA);
- The presentation layers of applications, which include data which should be accessed from different utility software (such as web browsers or text viewers). Data representation standards include the file formats TXT, PDF, JPEG, PNG, HTML, XHTML and XML;
- User interaction, especially web- and portal-based applications. Standards include Portlets (JSR 286), Microsoft Webparts, WSRP and Google gadgets/widgets.
- The management should approve, adopt and communicate the institutional standards for technical interoperability to all units involved.
Parent
Structure
Structure
- The management should ensure that the institution adopts ICT standards, including standards for interoperability.
- The management should specify relevant duties and responsibilities to specify and manage the institutional technical interoperability standards.
- Institutional standards on ICT should be based on international standards (e.g. W3C, OASIS), the institutional interoperability framework and the service-oriented-architecture (SOA)-based interoperability application model.
Title HTML
Guideline 26. Institutional technical standards on interoperability
Type
Guideline_1
Weight
37