ON THE NET XI “Realising the digital parliament” Ing. Mauro Fioroni – Servizio Informatica Italian Senate A transparent and paper-smart Parliament based on open standards Advances in the ICT strategies and projects of the Italian Senate

ICT Strategy and projects Business Process Digitalisation and Innovation Tranparency, Open Standards, Collaboration Business continuity and service availability Integration with Chamber of Deputies ICT Governance and savings Print-on demand App - Tabulas Syndication of acts Electronic signature Collabor. tools, …. LinkedOpenData Akoma Ntoso Scriba ePub Virtualization Security Wi-Fi Disaster Recovery Connectivity Cloud Computing Open Source ITIL SD, …

Towards a “paperless/smart” digital parliament?  Dematerialisation and BPI  Tabulas – Multiplatform App  Scriba - Ebook-izer  Theca - Dropbox-like cloud file sharing facility  Transparency and Open Standards  Akoma Ntoso XML for Bills  New Syndication Services RSS for acts and MPs  Linked Open Data website

Dematerialisation figures  from 119M to 19M printed pages/year  +180% online docs 4ys  20Gb of acts/year  Further savings from electronic drafting, improved access,...

Savings drivers Drafting In-house drafting/editing and production Electronic presentation (and digital signature) Printing Reduce printings and consolidate contracts Invest in print on demand Distribution Early electronic publication on Internet, Intranet, and kiosks Improved access and usability: search engines, collaboration tools, tablet-oriented services, ebooks Open & XML Open & XML & Joint

APP Tabulas  MPs needs:  agendas  acts  webTV  news  live reports  manuals  Tabulas carries ALL this info to Tablets  iOS, Android, web  based on Open Source SW

ePub  Tablet devices are good dematerialization companions  Reading experience of Tablets is maximized by epub open file format and readers:  Store ebooks in a “book library”  Turn pages  Insert bookmarks  Insert comments/notes  Adjust char size/contrast  PDF and HTML formats have different targets:  PDF is wysiwyg  HTML is volatile  How to exploit Epub?

: Every act is an ebook

Download standard predefined e-books: Last press review All agendas (Assembly and Committees) All last issued acts … Select documents of interest and create an ebook “on demand” Bills Reports Agendas Non-legislative docs …

engine is open source  Scriba ebook conversion engine makes extensive use of open source software  It is released under GNU GPL3 license on sourceforge  freely downloadable (7000 till now)  It is a JEE web service that can be deployed on Tomcat OS AS  Plug-in based architecture simplifies extension development PDFx XMLx XMLy Plugin 1 Plugin 2 Plugin 3

Theca: open “cloud style” file sharing  Dropbox is influencing file sharing as Google influenced search  Theca is a “dropbox style” file- oriented collaboration system  Simple shared file system accessible from:  Desktop folder  Intranet Portal  Extranet  Tablet  Application: Assembly and Committee documents  Each Committee Off. Owns its “area”  Content organization is “private”  Access is authenticated  Senators access the documents securely from tablets/netbooks/PCs  WiFi in Committees

Akoma Ntoso (“linked hearts”) XML standard for parliamentary acts  Every bill has several versions  HTML, PDF, ePub, XML  Akoma Ntoso XML schema is being standardised in OASIS  We are co-operating with UN, OASIS, EP on the development of common tools and standards: e.g. AT4AM

Web syndication of parliamentary info (Feed RSS)  Every type of parliamentary act has an associated feed, e.g.  Bills RSS  Agendas RSS  “All” RSS  Every relevant entity has also a feed: Senator, Bills, Documents, Procedures  Enables integration, prompts notifications, eases distribution reducing hard copies of documents

The new Senate Web Site for Linked Open Data services: dati.senato.it  ~13M triples:  Senators  MPs, pol. groups, committees  Acts  Bills, non-legislative  Votes  All electronic votes on all topics  data since 1996 to “yesterday”  integrated with Chamber of Deputies LOD site  overlapping and integrated ontology  updated every night

dati.senato.it: highlights download of dynamic datasets in CSV, JSON, XML SPARQL queries supported from web interface and from SPARQL endpoint

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