EPSA Projects

Acronym of the case:

EPSA

Web address of the case:

http://www.epsa-projects.eu

Country of the case:

Pan european

Posting Date:

17 October 2008

Last Edited Date:

23 January 2009

Author:

Bernhard Krabina (KDZ - Zentrum fÃ¼r Verwaltungsforschung)

award | EPSA | Wiki

Type of initiative

Award scheme
Promotion/awareness campaign

Case Abstract

EPSA 2007 - the European Public Sector Award is the first pan-European learning platform for public administration. It allows organisations to share experiences and best practices and learn from each other. The EPSA brings together the best and most innovative performers from the European public sector. The EPSA-Wiki brings the content of the Publication "Fact Sheet Booklet" to the (Semenatic) Web.

Description of the case

Domain

eGovernment

Topic

Efficiency & Effectiveness, Benchmarking | Other

Sector

Education, Science and Research

Start date - End date

October 2008 (Ongoing)

Date operational

October 2008

Target Users

Administrative

Target Users Description

Public Administrations across Europe

Scope

International

Status

Operation

Language(s)

German | English | French

Policy Context and Legal Framework

All the submissions, diplomas and awards of the EPSA 2007 are now available online.

Project Size and Implementation

Type of initiative

Content provision

Overall Implementation approach

Public administration

Technology choice

Mainly (or only) open standards | Open source software

Funding source

Public funding national

Project size

Implementation: €5-15,000

Yearly cost:

€1-49,000

Implementation and Management Approach

Objectives:
- easy to use Web database with project details of the printed Fact Sheet Booklet (all award submissions, diplomas, awards)
- additional descriptive data: short English description, keywords, geographical location
- new navigation and browsing possibilities
- use of open-source software
- easy reuse of data and reuse of the database for the next award

Technology solution

Semantic Mediawiki (http://www.semantic-mediawiki.org) was used in order to create the online database of projects.

* MediaWiki
* Semantic MediaWiki Extension
* Semantic Forms Extension
* Semantic Drilldown Extension
* Data Transfer Extension
* Semantic Google Maps Extension
* ParserFunctions Extension
* Google Analytics Integration Extension

Output formats:
XHMTL, XML, RDF, RSS

Impact, innovation and results

Impact

Features:
- project descriptions and structured descriptive data
- tag cloud display and filters for all descriptive data
- project locations displayed on interactive maps
- various interactive tables for displaying data
- project start dated displayed on an interactive timeline
- re-use of data:
RSS output (for use in Web sites, browsers, e-mail), XML output of pages, RDF output of structured data

Track record of sharing

The EPSA-Wiki has been implemented by KDZ - Centre for Public Administration Research for the Federal Chancellery of Austria (Austrian EPSA partner).

Lessons learnt

Lesson 1 - Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is an excellent choice for publishing unstructured and structured data in a user friendly way.
Lesson 2 - SMW (including some extensions) can facilitate browsing, searching and displaying as well as reuse of data.
Lesson 3 - The infrastructure can be reused for future EPS-Awards.