Trusted data reuse in residence certificate requests between public officiers and municipality employees

Distributed data interoperability and their efficient reuse is a key asset in enabling better back-office service integration in e-Government scenarios so as to allow a more efficient services provision at a front-office level. In this paper we address the problem of improving the effectiveness and efficiency of a telematic solution allowing an authorized public officer to obtain updated citizens’ residence certificates from the Municipality office. The presented application is built on top of the InterDataNet architecture allowing users to collaborate aggregating distributed data from the Web. In InterDataNet each data unit has an owner responsible entitled of its management. Each authorized user will (re)use data directly from its origin without duplicating the data locally. This work demonstrated the technical viability of this service solution through the realization of a Proof of Concept and raised the interests of the involved parties allowing the setting up of its operational prototyping. The solution described in this work may generalize to other Public Administration scenarios where distributed actors need to collaborate on distributed data organized into structured documents. The InterDataNet infrastructural solution which handles collaboration and trust issues related to data and documents reuse, can therefore serve other application scenarios.