In Germany, the SHAPTH project (interface harmonisation and exchange platform for drinking water hygiene) aims to harmonise the data exchange formats used for drinking water analyses and the associated data and catalogues. This is an initiative that is being funded as part of the ÖGD Pact and implemented as a cross-state measure (ELFA – Ein Land Für Alle) (see also www.SHAPTH.info).
We have been supporting the project for over a year with a seat on the expert committee and are contributing to the success of the project with our experience both professionally in the drinking water sector and technologically in the design of processes for data exchange.
The current pilot phase serves to gather experience with the new drinking water data format XWasser for the transmission of test reports before the other processes are successively realised.
We are of course also supporting this initiative and the associated simplification with corresponding (interface) modules in lisa.lims. All the groups addressed in the target image are already users of our LIMS and will benefit in future from the fact that we were involved at an early stage and participated in the design of SHAPTH.
