An Ontology for Chinese Government Archives Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

Abstract

Government archives comprise a series of documents or important information resources produced or used by government departments to meet the needs of economic and social governance, fulfill government functions, and perform official activities. They have inestimable value in economic development, social operations, and strategy. However, due to the lack of effective application of knowledge management technology, government information resources are locked in archive records, making it difficult to achieve knowledge organization and interoperability. Based on the theories and methods of the semantic web and semantic ontology construction, we summarize the relevant domain knowledge of government archives and construct the Chinese Government Archive Ontology (GAO) with the collection of government archives as the data drive. The ontology model implements the semantic interoperability between government archives and performs knowledge representation and reasoning on their content. We define the classes and properties of GAO, describe its creation process in detail, and demonstrate its applicability in practice through SPARQL query and event logical representation based on the 5W1H framework. GAO is capable of realizing linked data and discovering the knowledge hidden behind the policies of various agencies and departments, which can serve scientific decision-making and the economic society, regulate institutional powers, and further promote the research and practice of archival science in the digital age.

The Impact of Semantic Web and Ontology to Improve E-government Services: A Systematic Review

“…Ontology supports reasoning tasks such as information retrieval, classification, and semantic analysis, as well as knowledge representation. Through their research, Z. Wang et al [34] created an ontology for the knowledge contained in Chinese government archives to represent and make sense of it. One area of science lacking in this work is the empirical assessment of how well the developed ontology performs in tasks involving knowledge representation and reasoning about Chinese government archives.…”

“…An ontology for knowledge representation and reasoning in Chinese government archives is presented by Z. Wang et al [34]. The ontology is designed to facilitate the management and retrieval of information from government archives, which contain a vast amount of historical and administrative data.…”

“…Identification in e-Government [31] A Semantic Search Tool for E-government Public Services in Albania [32] An ontology automation construction scheme for Chinese e-government thesaurus optimizing [33] Archive Knowledge An Ontology for Chinese Government Archives Knowledge Representation and Reasoning [34] Facilitating knowledge discovery and composition. Promoting knowledge sharing and reuse.…”