Speech acts, electronic commerce, and KQML
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: logic modeling
Building the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional Change
Building the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional Change
Governance enterprise architecture (GEA): domain models for e-governance
ICEC '04 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Electronic commerce
Models for semantic interoperability in service-oriented architectures
IBM Systems Journal
Review and Alignment of Tag Ontologies for Semantically-Linked Data in Collaborative Tagging Spaces
ICSC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing
Semantic interoperability in eGovernment initiatives
Computer Standards & Interfaces
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The increasing use of social media by governments for improving citizen access to information, participation of stakeholders in policy processes and delivery of customer-focused services are among the defining features of the so-called "Governance 2.0" phenomenon. Another feature is the interaction between existing government networks and social networks of citizens and policy actors in order to disseminate government information and seek contributions from citizens and other actors to policies, decisions and services. This article examines the semantic issues associated with the emerging Governance 2.0 networks. It evolves an architectural framework to guide governments and their agencies in developing semantic interoperability capabilities. We approach the problem by first developing a conceptual model for analyzing semantic interoperability requirements in general. Next, we provide a case study to generate interesting scenarios and identify concrete semantic interoperability issues arising from the interactions between citizens, businesses and government through traditional and electronic channels and different forms of social media. Subsequently, we present a Semantic Interoperability Architecture Framework to address these issues based on existing government semantic interoperability frameworks and semantic standards for Web 2.0. After validating the prescribed framework, we discuss how it could be used in practice by governments.