The BME Centre for Information Technology in Public Administration (BME IK) – as a partner of IdomSoft Zrt. – has been participating in the work of the National Security Service and the National Laboratory for Infocommunication and Information Technology (infolab.nemzetilabor.hu), established in consortium with IdomSoft Zrt. since 2021.
The BME IK has focused on two key research areas in the framework of the systems and data science research focus area “Customer-centric, cost-effective digital public administration”:
- Research for the implementation of semantic interoperability of the national data repository.
- Research needed for the systems engineering implementation of electronic-automated, service-oriented cooperation.
In the context of our research task related to semantic interoperability, we have prepared a study covering the administrative and IT aspects of registers, examining the impact of the e-Administration Act on the development of the register management logic, illustrating with concrete examples the consequences of the primacy of information sources, their evolutionary phases, possible change management mechanisms. The paper analyses the possibilities of formal data and information management, proposes the development of a digital ontology system for public administration and identifies the tasks that are essential for the creation of semantic interoperability in public administration.
In the context of the research needed for the systems engineering implementation of service-oriented interoperability between legacy systems, the possibilities for technological standardisation and feasibility of connecting to the Central Government Service Bus (GSSB) were investigated. For the purpose of unification, we have developed a model for a unified interface descriptor and a related development methodology, and defined an easily readable and writable unified interface descriptor language (EIL). In addition, we have developed prototype software that can interpret the description of services provided in the unified interface descriptor language, from which the program schemas can be automatically generated that can be directly used for the design of IT systems connected to the CCSSC. The methodology and applied research results of the National Laboratory of the BME IK can be used in the implementation of the DIMOP 1.3.9 and 1.3.10 priority development projects.
