Configuring E-Government Services Using Ontologies

Abstract

Abstract:The increasing complexity of e-Government services demands a correspondingly larger effort for management. Today, many system management tasks, such as service verification and re-configuration due to changes in the law, are often performed manually. This can be time consuming and error-prone. The main objective of the OntoGov (IST-2002-507237) project is to overcome the above mentioned problems by developing a semantically-enriched platform that will facilitate the consistent configuration and re-configuration of e-Government services. This paper outlines the overall OntoGov platform and demonstrates how the Service Modeller can be used to consistently model e-Government Services.

Semantic-Driven e-Government: Application of Uschold and King Ontology Building Methodology for Semantic Ontology Models Development

“…As mentioned earlier, OWL is a common language employed for semantic knowledge representation in e-government. In particular, OWL ontologies allow the composition [1], [7], searching, matching, mapping and merging [2], [6] of e-government services and facilitate their integration [1], [2], [5], maintenance [1] and interoperability [3], [4], [6], [7]. Therefore, generating OWL ontology from a government service domain as it is done in this research and in [28] is an important step towards the development of Semantic Web applications as egovernment applications, which have potential to perform semantic inference and reasoning over the OWL ontology and facilitate software components integration and interoperability.…”

“…The instances of government are department, agency and municipality. Based on equations (1) and (2) Similarly, a manual analysis of each competency question in Table 2 was performed and the main concepts of the development project (DP) domain which are semantically related to the question (see column 2 of Table 6) enumerated. For instance, let's consider the first question (Q1) in Table 2: "What are the current projects being run in a given locality?"…”

“…During the past six years, electronic government (e-government) has been one of the most active areas of ontology development [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]. In e-government, ontologies are being used to describe and specify e-government services (e-services), primarily because they facilitate the semantic integration and interoperability of e-services.…”

“…Various different aspects of e-government have been modeled by researchers using the ontology paradigm. For example, Sanati and Lu [6] focus on the integration of e-services while the issue of composition, reconfiguration and evaluation of e-services was addressed by the ONTOGOV project [1], [2]. Other solutions for services integration were proposed in Chen et al [8] and Gugliotta et al [9].…”

Combining Ontology Development Methodologies and Semantic Web Platforms for E-government Domain Ontology Development

“…Although the state-of-the-art software engineering techniques including objectoriented and agile methods provide appropriate solutions to the aforementioned engineering problems of services integration and interoperability in e-government [1], [3], [4], it has been demonstrated that they have certain limitations [3], [4], [5], [6]. Therefore, during the past six years, Semantic Web technologies have emerged as promising solutions to these problems [3], [4], [7], [8], [16].…”