An IT-independent reference model for it-supported, interactive, regulation based services

Abstract

In 2012 some Dutch government services organizations, academia and innovative companies decided to establish a co-creation, named Blue Chamber, with the aim to develop a national protocol to “translate regulations” into a durable, IT-independent model or specifications for interactive regulation based services. Regulation here means the union of laws and decrees, both government and ministerial. Such a protocol acts like a process and each process requires a conceptual data structure or IT-independent reference model. After 5 years of research, development and validation, version 1 of the Reference model is ready for publication. The Dutch Government has decided to provide IT-based services and enforcement actions based on as many laws and decrees as appropriate. The core of this Reference model will be described in this paper. The CogNIAM variant of Fact Based Modeling has been used to develop the Reference model, using field-testing with the associated prototypes.