Common method of evaluation of standards and specifications (CAMSS) is the european guide to assess and select standards and specifications for a project of electronic administration, a reference to building an architecture and a facilitator to justify the choice of standards and specifications in terms of needs and requirements of interoperability. Is fully in line with the European standardisation Rules (EU) no. 1025/2012.
Target audience
:
Any Public Administration
Usage
:
Network service for end-users
Type of Solution
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Open source application
,
Good Practice
Status of the Solution
:
Production
Organic area
:
State
Technical area
:
Horizontal services for the AA.PP
,
Standardization and regulation
Functional area
:
Government and public sector
License
:
EUPL (European Public License)
Interoperability level
:
Technical
,
Semantic
Operating system
:
Anyone
Description
CAMSS-as-a-Service, provides a service which aim is the assessment of standards and specifications on demand through the use of CAMSS Tools. The author of the assessments is the CAMSS Team.
CAMSS is the European guide for assessing and selecting standards and specifications for an eGovernment project, a reference when building an architecture and an enabler for justifying the choice of standards and specifications in terms of interoperability needs and requirements. CAMSS was created in the context of Action 2016.32 of the ISA² Programme and is being maintained under the Interoperable Europe public initiative.
The main objective of CAMSS is achieving interoperability and avoiding vendor lock-in by establishing a neutral and unbiased method for the assessment of technical specifications and standards in the field of ICT. This method will be compliant with the Regulation 1025/2012 on European Standardisation.
While ICT solutions have specific characteristics at the political, legal, and organisational levels; semantic and technical interoperability are based mostly on technical specifications or standards. Within the context of the elaboration of their National Interoperability Frameworks, Member States organise the assessment of technical specifications or standards, in order to establish their national recommendations. Deciding on the recommended technical specifications or standards often calls for a resource-intensive and time-consuming assessment. In order to tackle this, the Digital Europe Programme (DEP) defines an action focused on the development of a common assessment method for standards and specifications (CAMSS).
The purpose of CAMSS is:
to ensure that assessments of technical ICT specifications or standards and interoperability profiles are performed according to high and consistent standards;
to ensure that assessments will contribute significantly to confidence in the interoperability of systems implementing these specifications and profiles;
to enable the reuse, in whole or in part, of such assessments;
to continuously improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the assessment process for ICT technical specifications, standards and interoperability profiles.
The assessment of standards and specifications for eGovernment solutions is currently organised on a national basis, e.g. within the context of Member States’ National Interoperability Frameworks. "CAMSS" is an initiative to promote collaboration between EU Member States in defining a "Common Assessment Method for Standards and Specifications" and to share with other countries the assessment study results for the development of eGovernment services.
In this way interoperability between EU Member States in the area of eGovernment will be expanded through the sharing of information and knowledge, the alignment of national processes and by reusing best practices. It will also speed up the assessment processes, reduce their cost throughout European public administrations and avoid ICT vendor specific lock-in.
