eGovernment

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

“…Certainly there is evidence of a divergence between ideas of government (cf. [321]), leading to different ideas about how to meet the various challenges that government poses for technology, including how to represent, publish, integrate and discover knowledge, how to manage change, how to deal with privacy, and how to facilitate service provision on the Web [321, pp. 845-864].…”

“…However, efforts to optimise the use of Web technology are somewhat patchy [321]. This is an issue in the context of Dunleavy et al's [113] more powerful claim that their model is not only descriptive, but also normative -that is, that the DEG model not only describes how government is evolving, but also specifies how it ought to evolve.…”

“…It has proven harder than some might have anticipated for enough control to be exercised over either the technological development, or the institutional structures, to implement digital era governance in accordance with the structural ideals that we understand from technologies like linked data and the Semantic Web [321,361]. This is another Web Science research problem in the area of indirect control.…”

Trentino Government Linked Open Geo-data: A Case Study

“…However, in order to maximize interoperability among datasets it is important to select a vocabulary among those with wider consensus. For this reason, we have encoded geographic metadata -originally provided following the ISO19115 standard -using Dublin Core (DC) 16 and DCMI-BOX 17 standard vocabularies. See an example in Figure 2.…”

“…The theme of linking open government data gains more interest as it aims at simplifying data integration [27], e.g., by providing explicit links in advance to other relevant datasets. See for example the respective US 3 [5] and UK 4 [16] initiatives. The contributions of the paper include:…”