Federate your national catalogue of interoperability solutions with us

One of the Portal’s key objectives is to become the place to go when looking for interoperability solutions. By federating solutions with the Portal, repositories instantly expand their user-base and expose their interoperability solutions to like-minded parties in need of them.

Why federate with the Portal?

Here are just a few of the benefits you, too, can gain by federating with us:

• The Portal is the European Commission's official repository for interoperable solutions, thus you become part of a credible and trustworthy platform;
• Showcase your interoperability innovations to the thousands of the Portal users from various European Public Administrations and Standardisation Bodies, businesses and academia;
• Have your interoperability solutions appear in the top result pages of major search engines, thanks to the Portal's vast SEO-friendly underlying page-depth structure;
• Contribute to the Portal's vision of open standards and free open source software in the public sector.

What others are saying

	"Federation with the Portal was the best way to increase visibility of our solutions." --Elena Muñoz, Head of Telematics Systems Area within the General Secretariat of Digital Administration at the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Function, and tech lead of Spain’s Technology Transfer Centre (CTT) Read Elena's full Portal interview here.
	“The Portal, the ideal dissemination platform for our open source solutions.” --Francesca Bria, former Chief Technology and Digital Innovation Officer​ of Barcelona City Council Read Francesca's full Portal interview here.
	“We think the Portal allows us to give additional exposure to the solutions developed in Slovenia and to raise interest among other Member States […]” --Danica Saponja, Editor-in-Chief of the NIO portal in Slovenia Read Danica's full Portal interview here.

Harvesting of external catalogues

The Portal aims to build a complete catalogue of interoperability solutions. However, other catalogues of solutions exist outside of the Portal, for instance at the Member State level, or at international Standardisation Bodies. In order to bring all those catalogues together in one portal, the Portal can harvest them and offer a central entry point to a vast collection of interoperability solutions.

Harvesting in 3 simple steps

1. Getting the data

On a regular basis, the descriptions of interoperability solutions are gathered; either by manually uploading them, or by having the Portal fetch them from a well known location.

2. Validation

Before adding the solutions to the Portal catalogue, the descriptions of the solutions are validated. If these descriptions follow the specifications of ADMS-AP, the information gets stored in the Portal repository.

3. Publication of solutions

The solutions of the Portal catalogue are available on both the Portal website, as well as through the Portal API.

Getting down to the technical details

If we have piqued your Interest in federating with the Portal, then you surely would like to learn about the inner workings of the federation/harvesting process. Have a look at our concise Technical steps guide and get in touch with us for further assistance and directions!