metadata.swiss: Meta and reference data for digitalisation specialists

metadata.swiss is intended as a centralised tool for digitalisation specialists. It bridges the gap between data producers and data consumers, supports coordination between experts, digitalisation specialists and systems, and in turn, makes it significantly easier to digitalise processes. The accumulation of metadata also creates significant potential for automation, which enables cost savings. The platform offers extensive content, such as data catalogues, APIs and services, and allows management of reference data, in particular nomenclatures, with subsequent publication on LINDAS.

This measure includes redeveloping and merging the existing platforms opendata.swiss and I14Y into an integrated solution. As part of this process, the data catalogue will be implemented using the open source technology Piveau and the nomenclature area will be expanded. The aim is to make it easy to find data, as well as to maintain reference data, manage it throughout its life cycle and publish it efficiently, in line with the requirements of EMOTA and DigiO.

The platform facilitates digitalisation, promotes data harmonisation and interoperability, saves on costs, and simplifies the user experience. Concrete use cases demonstrate the benefits: an SME can use meteorological data to control drainage basins in good time before a storm, and an insurance company can send harmonised data efficiently to the FOPH.

As part of the project, a gap analysis was carried out to assess the current and future states of the target architecture. The design, implementation and migration of the opendata.swiss and I14Y platforms were also prepared. The work was carried out in close coordination with the open government data community and local data stewards to ensure uniform and sustainable further development of the data infrastructure.