Today’s organizations are a complex knot of people, processes, rules, IT, responsibilities, tasks, and much more. Complexity begets inefficiencies, so to transform our businesses we need a new generation of organizational tools that lead to greater efficiency. Digital transformation is defined as: “Transformation of the enterprise with a major impact on digital resources and capabilities of the enterprise.” Thus, digital transformation means designing/redesigning and constructing/reconstructing an organizational process in the same way that an engineer would build an automobile, airplane, or computer. A digital transformation project (DTP) is one that completely automates a business workflow, including integration of third-party resources. What distinguishes DTPs from traditional IT projects that support business processes is the elimination of most of the manual processes as part of the workflow, thus truly transforming the business. An example would be online voting.
characteristics, that are inherent in law enforcement.
RegelSpraak is a CNL developed at the Dutch Tax Administration (DTA) over the last decade. Keeping up with frequently changing tax rules poses a formidable challenge to the DTA IT department.RegelSpraak is a central asset in ongoing efforts of the DTA to ttune their tax IT systems to automatic execution of tax law. RegelSpraak now is part of the operational process of rule specification and execution. In this practice-oriented paper, we present the history of RegelSpraak, its properties and the context of its use, emphasizing its double functionality as a language readable by non-technical tax experts but also directly interpretable in a software generating setup.
In 2019, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) made it mandatory to support the electronic clearance of ships entering foreign ports. In preparation, the IMO Facilitation Committee started to develop a reference data model to harmonise the most important standards for ship clearance. The first version was published in 2020. The model is already extending into other areas of ship-port data exchanges and it is now increasingly seen as a tool to coordinate development of new electronic data exchange standards for ship operations. The lack of such coordination has, up until now, been a significant problem—much better coordination is essential in the relatively small and highly international market that shipping represents.
Organisations deal with a large set of source documents, often concerning law and regulation, that they need to comply to or bring to execution. In the past, a team of legal specialists analysed these documents and wrote new documents containing informal preliminary specifications which are hard to validate. Another group of experts translates these documents to specifications for IT-systems. The Best Practice as described in this paper, takes another approach. In a multidisciplinary team of experts, combining the knowledge of legal specialists with the modelling competences of knowledge modelers. It describes how legal experts will analyse legal documents, add interpretations and classifications (model elements) and how knowledge modelers assist in creating extended conceptual information models. The result is a validated and extended conceptual information model, in which all knowledge elements are traceable to the original legal text. This happens with fewer translation steps compared to the approach mentioned above.
