Establishing cross-authority master data management
Master data is basic information that administrations require for their activities or for completing ongoing operations. This is information on people, companies, buildings and land, for example. "Joint master data" is master data that is relevant for more than one administrative unit. Master data that is defined at federal level should also be made available for the public administrations of the cantons and communes.
Lower resource requirements owing to national management of master data
In future, master data that is used multiple times should be jointly managed and made available for use by administrations at all federal levels and other authorised groups. If a large amount of data needs to be entered and maintained only once, this reduces the resource requirements for all concerned. Residents, companies and other organisations need provide their information only once to the administration (once-only principle). The authorities can also provide more efficient and more user-friendly services.
In future, the master data that is defined at federal level and is used by different units should be made available for use by administrations at all federal levels and other authorised groups.
«The joint management of master data is an important element in supporting the digital transformation of the authorities.»
Manuela Lenk, Vice Director, Federal Statistical Office
Further information
Implementation plan objective 09/21
Establishing cross-authority master data management
«Master data that is defined at federal level (implementation of the strategy on federal master data) should also be made available for the public administrations of the cantons and communes. [...] The following base registers and reference systems are of particular interest: companies (Business and Enterprise Register BER; Unique Business Identification Number UID), property information and geodata (National Register of Buildings and Dwellings RBD; federal geodata infrastructure); persons (communal and cantonal registers of residents via the national address service). [...] The aim is that these five base registers and infrastructures will be coordinated via a central "national data infrastructure" organisation, but that they will be managed in a decentralised manner.»
Implementation plan measures
| Measures | End date | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Measures | Draw up a specialist concept, reference architecture and organisational concept for managing registers according to the once-only principle in collaboration with offices of the Federal Administration and a pilot canton (scope: persons, companies, buildings and dwellings, geodata). | End date | 31.12.2021 |
| Measures | Draw up, in collaboration with the various levels of government, an inventory of master data used by the Confederation, cantons and communes; prepare a national data glossary that is comprehensible for all specialist areas. | End date | 31.12.2021 |
| Measures | Carry out a pilot project at the FSO and in a pilot canton. | End date | 31.12.2023 |
| Measures | Integrate the harmonised system of the official address register set out in Articles 26b and 26c of the GeoNO (SR 510.625) into the cantonal commercial registers. | End date | 31.12.2021 |