Federal Information Management

Many public administrations maintain their information on administrative procedures on their own. This leads to a heterogeneous information landscape. It is, however, crucial for maintaining a reliable public service that same content is always described the same. Here, the FIM project comes into play. It is the goal to build up an information management that supports information exchange across all federal levels between internal processes and between public administrations and citizens (public service). This will be achieved by combining functional and technical Standardization. Public services are based on the three FIM building blocks:

 
* Service descriptions: They inform the citizens as well as the economy on public services.

* Forms: They enable to apply for public services

* Process: The application through a form initiates a service delivery process within the public administration, which usually ends with a delivery of notification.
 

In the context of FIM, the Chair for Information Systems and Information Management at the Institute for Information Systems at the University of Münster addresses the FIM building block Standardization of forms - together with the Chair of Information Systems of the TU Munich, fortiss GmbH and Steinheis University of Applied Sciences. By doing so, the concept for a form repository will be developed, which enables the consistent and modular use of form building blocks across all federal levels.