Danish e-Government Architecture

On June 13 2003 the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation published a white paper* on governmentwide enterprise architecture. This whitepaper was the starting point for the succeeding initiatives in the Danish architecture for eGovernment programme which covers all tiers of government. The paper Architecture for e-Government* from sums up the major initiatives up until March 2004.

A National OIO Enterprise Architecture Committee has been established. A National OIO Enterprise Architecture Forum covering the same subjects is open for all interested parties within government as well as within the private sector.

Ressources in english are marked with *.

from http://www.oio.dk/arkitektur/eng

The Interoperability Framework is the Danish e-Government Interoperability Framework.

The framework includes recommendations and status assessments for 609 selected standards, specifications and technologies used in e-government solutions.

This is version 1.2.14 of the framework. If you know the Interoperability Framework already, see What's new?. Newcomers might want to check the survival guide. All users should check the advanced search services, and of course also read the (updated) guidelines for use. Above all, everyone should dig into the 609 standards in the categories below.

from http://standarder.oio.dk/English/

There is a blog in English and Danish - Interoperability Framework Blog.  Here's the latest English posting, from February 13, 2006

Another standard has been added to the Framework. This time it is Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).

RBAC is a conceptual model, which uses employee assignments, functions, qualifications, responsibilities and authorizations as its starting point. RBAC is based on users, roles, role hierarchies, relations and limitations (e.g. separation of functions) and is a foundation for controlling who is able to do what, when, where, in what order etc.

As a part of the Danish government wide enterprise architecture a project focusing on a common approach to user and access management has been established. This project is among other things concerned with RBAC.

Previously:
April 30, 2006  Government of Ontario EA and SOA
April 30, 2006  Government of Canada EA and SOA
November 24, 2005  EA and SOA info overload, courtesy of John Gøtze