Unified Data Modelling and Document Standardization Using Core Components Technical Specification for Electronic Government Applications

Abstract

In the effort of Governments worldwide to effectively transform manual into electronic services, semantic interoperability issues pose as a key challenge: system-to-system interaction asks for standardized data definitions, codification of existing unstructured information and a framework for managing governmental data in a unified way. Integrating and extending recent developments in Germany, Hong-Kong, UK and US governments -but also eBusiness interoperability research results in Europe, the proposed approach is applied within the Greek e-Government Framework and bears the following steps: (a) Gathering and analysis of governmental service forms at field level, so that common structures can be identified, (b) Customization of UN/CEFACT Core Components, (c) Semiautomatic XML Schema Definition (XSD) files creation, using sets of naming, structuring and verification rules, (d) Adoption of international or development of country-specific Codelists, (e) Development of guidance material for the application of the approach by government officials at central or local level. Discussion on the results is targeting best practice examples that can be drawn at scientific and organizational level, but also the key difficulties that have to be tackled -in relevance with the administrations and industry readiness in each country. Future steps include enhancing the paradigm in order to cover vertical data standards and applying the approach to other EU or associated countries.

Emerging forms of inter-organizational and cross-sector collaborations in e-government initiatives

“…However, most studies still mainly take a technical perspective, pointing out the possibilities of social media, ubiquitous computing, web portals and Internet of Things and identifying corresponding needs for standards and architecture frameworks (e.g. Charalabilitis et al 2008;Marchese 2003;de Kool et al 2008). Meanwhile, this study illustrates e-government initiatives that are highly cooperative within and across organizational boundaries.…”

“…In e-government research, the notion of "the second generation of e-government" is sometimes used to describe e-government initiatives promoting higher levels of transparency and increased engagement of citizens and requiring new styles of governance and change management (Bonsón et al, 2012;Archer, 2005). However, most studies still mainly take a technical perspective, pointing out the possibilities of social media, ubiquitous computing, Web portals and Internet of Things and identifying corresponding needs for standards and architecture frameworks (Charalabilitis et al, 2008;Marchese, 2003;de Kool and van Wamelen, 2008). Meanwhile, this study illustrates e-government initiatives that are highly cooperative within and across organizational boundaries.…”

Sustainable Government Enterprise Architecture Framework

“…In fact, the proposed public service as the capability of e-government has been categorized into three kinds of categories, which are government to citizen, government to business, and government to government [34]. The fundamental of information availability of each category is dedicatedly designed, whereby the design for serving citizen would concentrate in general demographic, education, health, employment, income tax, and social welfare, such as the proposed unified data modelling and document standardization [35]. The concentration of business services would be more on corporate tax, custom, registration, and permits.…”

Investigating the Landscape in National Interoperability Frameworks

“…As far as the egovernment interoperability frameworks research is concerned, it must be noted that apart from the information published in the EGIFs official web sites (until August 2009), the findings of relevant work undertaken by Luis Guijarro (2007), Yannis Charalabidis et al (2007aCharalabidis et al ( , 2007bCharalabidis et al ( , 2008a, the Modinis study on interoperability (2007) and the UNDP study (2007) have also been taken into account.…”