A Public Service Catalogue is an architectural building block of the EIRA Organisational view supporting the Organisational interoperability layer of the European Interoperability Framework.
It is included in the Enabler grouping Key Sharing and Reuse Enablers.


Public Service Catalogue is a specialisation of Repository. It is a collection of descriptions of active public services that are provided by public administrations at any administrative level (i.e. local, regional, national or pan-European). All public service descriptions published in a catalogue of public services conform to a common data model for representing public services.


The Public Service Catalogue ABB is a key interoperability enabler because it helps achieve organisational interoperability by ensuring ensuring the provision/consumption of  front-office public services. Catalogues are also key element of the EIF Integrated public service governance conceptual model. According to EIF Recommendation #eif44 - Put in place catalogues of public services, public data, interoperability solutions: "Put in place catalogues of public services, public data, and interoperability solutions and use common models for describing them."


Example

The following implementation is an example on how this specific Architecture Building Block (ABB) can be instantiated as a Solution Building Block (SBB):

BOSA Transformation Digitale

Service Catalogue part of the Federal Public Service Policy and Support of Belgium, offers a public service catalogue. Here are a few examples of the offered services:

  • Company data (company information and certificates),
  • Digiflow (access to online certificates),
  • E-mail Relay (relay of e-mail to and from the federal public services and institutions, as a protection to viruses and spam),
  • eBirth (birth online notification and transfer of statistics),
  • eDepot (for notaries),
  • Federal Authentication Service (authentication of individuals for access to online government applications), etc.


The latest release of the EIRA© is available on Joinup.


Source: European Interoperability Reference Architecture (EIRA version 3) (url) (with information on the 3rd release at the website of the ISA² - Interoperability solutions for public administrations, businesses and citizens).