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Services Registry - German Administration Services Directory (DVDV)

The German Administration Services Directory (DVDV) is a level - and sector-crossing infrastructure component for eGovernment in Germany. In more detail, it is the professional and administrative cross-border infrastructure component for the safe and reliable addressing of automated services and specialised procedures for secure and legally binding communication between authorities and with the public administration in Germany. The basis of the DVDV is a directory service which lists agencies and other providers with their respective services.

The DVDV is based exclusively on open Internet protocols. Worldwide, it is one of the first and largest standardised Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementations in the government area, and was made possible through unique cooperation between various levels of government and sectors in the Federal Republic of Germany.

SAGA

In 2002, the co-ordinating and advisory agency of the Federal Government for Information Technology published the document 'Standards and Architectures for eGovernment Applications' (SAGA) as a guideline for eGovernment application development projects. A host of completed projects has been orientated towards the state-of-the-art and investment-safe standards and technologies recommended by SAGA.

On 3 November 2011 the IT Council adopted the version 5 of SAGA. SAGA 5 is a mandatory technology catalogue for all software systems of the German federal administration. Technologies must be chosen according to the classifications in SAGA in all software projects. Goals of SAGA are the reduction of risks and investment-safe developments as well as agility, security, interoperability, reusability and scalability for software systems. Publisher of SAGA is the Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology.