Building Semantic Webs for e-government with Wiki technology

Abstract

E-government webs are among the largest webs in existence, based on the size, number of users and number of information providers. Thus, creating a Semantic Web infrastructure to meaningfully organise e-government webs is highly desirable. At the same time, the complexity of the existing e-government implementations also challenges the feasibility of Semantic Web creation. We therefore propose the design of a two-layer semantic Wiki web, which consists of a content Wiki, largely identical to the traditional web and a semantic layer, also maintained within the Wiki, that describes semantic relationships. This architectural design promises several advantages that enable incremental growth, collaborative development by a large community of non-technical users and the ability to continually grow the content layer without the immediate overhead of parallel maintenance of the semantic layer. This paper explains current challenges to the development of a Semantic Web, identifies Wiki advantages, illustrates a potential solution and summarises major directions for further research.

Web Science: Understanding the Emergence of Macro-Level Features on the World Wide Web

“…In a complex and fragmented domain such as e-government, some bottom up processes will be required [365], because so many different cultures and practices, formal and informal, will be involved. Equally, top down pressure will also be required (a) to ensure that those departments reluctant to change still undergo the process, (b) to ensure consistency between approaches and to avoid reinventing the wheel (e.g., by sharing of ontologies), (c) to steer re-engineering strategically, (d) to provide rewards and incentives for good practice, and (e) to gather, disseminate and mandate best practice [321].…”

Dynamic Scheduling for Web Monitoring Crawler

“…Secondly, we need to provide recommendation system that helps the SLT cataloguers. The current system only display the newly updated information from the target Websites and the cataloguers manually add, delete, or modify Web information on the Service Tasmania Online and the Tasmania • Wagner, C., Cheung, K. S. K., Ip, R. K. F., & Bottcher, S. (2006 Abstract.…”

The Use of Wiki in an Academic Course: A Qualitative Investigation

“…Grant (2006) and Forte and Brukman (2007) who used wikis to support learning, claim that secondary school students did not use the social and cultural practices of collaborative working and that using wikis present barriers to collaboration. Examining wiki use in higher education reveals that wiki technology can help some knowledge-management goals for collaborative work and organizational learning (Fuchs-Kittowski & Köhler, 2002;Kille, 2006;Wagner, 2004;Wagner, Cheung, & Rachael, 2006). Raman, Rayn, and Olfman (2005) have conducted a research which examined the use of wiki in facilitating a knowledge-management class in an academic setting.…”