The institution, in coordination with the others participating in the agreement, establishes an interoperability framework to implement international agreements.
Guideline code
ICT_07800
Mechanism
Mechanism
- The Responsible Technical Team (RTT) should define an interoperability framework at the international level to implement international social security agreements, covering the following five dimensions:
- The political and legal dimensions of the framework should mainly consist of the international agreement itself as well as other relevant laws and regulations. Additional arrangements may be established wherever necessary to avoid any discrepancy that may jeopardize the application of interoperability in the implementation of the international agreement;
- The organizational dimension should specify the interoperable processes and operations involved in the implementation of international agreements;
- The semantic dimension should be based on metadata that consist of a model of the main business concepts involved in the implementation of international agreements (e.g. data sharing, data exchange, service invocation) and relationships among them, to define a unique meaning for these concepts throughout the institutions to facilitate the automatic treatment of data. As the operations in the implementation of international agreements involve different institutions, the corresponding inter-institutional metadata should be specified;
- The technical dimension should define the technologies to be used for implementing interoperability in order to ensure adequate technical integration of information and systems.
- The management should communicate the scope of the framework throughout the institution.
Structure
Structure
- The management should commission the ICT unit and institution’s delegates in the working committee of the agreement to define an interoperability framework at the international level for the international agreements in coordination with the other participating institutions.
- The management may establish specialized structures to manage interoperable processes in the implementation of international agreements. To establish accountability, the roles and responsibilities must be well defined and documented.
- The interoperability framework for the implementation of international agreements should be based on the institutional interoperability framework recommended in this set of Guidelines, Section B.1, Interoperability.
Title HTML
Guideline 58. Interoperability framework for international agreements
Type
Guideline_1
Weight
81