Deploying semantic web services-based applications in the e-government domain

  • Authors:

  • Alessio Gugliotta;John Domingue;Liliana Cabral;Vlad Tanasescu;Stefania Galizia;Rob Davies;Leticia Gutierrez Villarias;Mary Rowlatt;Marc Richardson;Sandra Stincic

  • Affiliations:

  • Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK;Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK;Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK;Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK;Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK;Essex County Council, Chelmsford, UK;Essex County Council, Chelmsford, UK;Essex County Council, Chelmsford, UK;BT Exact, Ipswich, UK;BT Exact, Ipswich, UK

  • Venue:
  • Journal on data semantics X
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Joining up services in e-Government usually implies governmental agencies acting in concert without a central control regime. This requires to the sharing scattered and heterogeneous data. Semantic Web Service (SWS) technology can help to integrate, mediate and reason between these datasets. However, since a few real-world applications have been developed, it is still unclear which are the actual benefits and issues of adopting such a technology in the e-Government domain. In this paper, we contribute to raising awareness of the potential benefits in the e-Government community by analyzing motivations, requirements and expected results, before proposing a reusable SWS-based framework. We demonstrate the application of this framework by showing how integration and interoperability emerge from this model through a cooperative and multi-viewpoint methodology. Finally, we illustrate added values and lessons learned by two compelling case studies: a change of circumstances notification system and a GIS-based emergency planning system, and describe key challenges which remain to be addressed.