Background - Mission
Efficient data storage and the resulting data integration are key contemporary management concepts. Correct and accurate data about people are required to carry out tasks efficiently and make policy adjustments. The enhanced person register and, in due course, the Flemish Person Crossroads Bank (VKBP) are of particular importance for the Welfare, Health and Culture sectors.
Personal data storage and exchange are also required as part of the administrative relief. Personal data may be exchanged and linked most effectively on the basis of the national register number.
Aim of the VPR project
The Flemish public administration is keen to build up experience with the VPR in the case of exchanging and storing data originating with the National Social Security Office. In the long term, the VPR has to be developed into a fully-fledged crossroads bank, the VKBP.
Aims of an enhanced crossroads bank
- Centralising dozens of Flemish services and applications that want to communicate with the Social Security Crossroads Bank (KSZ) so as to request personal data. The VPR project seeks to solve the tremendous KSZ registration problems via a connection to a central Flemish access system.
- Enhancing KSZ data with further personal data (such as enhanced general information and Flemish file data), so that applications function more intelligently.
How does the VPR operate?
Development of the VPR concept
The VPR provides for the development of a "network-driven service"', which means that parties directly consult the "authentic sources of information" as much as possible (via web services, for example), as a result of which the duplication of databases is avoided.
In this way, the Ministry of the Flemish public administration had created a specific Flemish "VKBP" (Enhanced KSZ), as a focal point where basic signposting is offered, enhanced with additional information (personal data and control data) derived from Flemish authentic sources of information. The overall service therefore involves a combination of application and data files from various (Flemish) sources, all making use of a national register number as a key component.
Access via the Flemish Integration Platform (VIP)
The Flemish public administration has implemented the Flemish Integration Platform (VIP) or MAGDA-platform (MAGDA=maximized datasharing amongst administrations). The VIP is a flexible solution for data exchange between applications. The Flemish Integration Platform (VIP) ensures that applications that use databases can exchange information with each other in spite of the disparate structures of the databases and different types of applications. The VPR project is one of the two pilot projects for the development of the VIP.
Examples - documentation
The VPR pulls out all the stops to try to cater for the requirements of the users/ applications. If you have any questions about the VPR you may get in touch with the Flemish e-government co-ordination unit or the Welfare, Public Health and Culture Department.
The design of the VPR is based on an initially limited fixed range of services that has to cover the key identification requirements of users/applications:
- Application-to-application communication with the basic VPR data being sent directly to the requesting applications (via XML, web services, interfaces to VPR).
- Updating of data via batch procedures.
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