ONTOGOV: Ontology-enabled e-gov service configuration

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 03.0355-2

Key words (English)

e-government; knowledge technology; semantic web

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: 507237

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 6. Frame Research Programme - 1.2 Communications technologies

Short description (English)

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Abstract (English)

For e-government initiatives to succeed, in addition to modernising the front office, attention should be paid in order to streamline, re-organise and support the back-office processes of public administrations that provide e-government services to citizens. Furthermore, actions should be taken to limit the loss of critical knowledge assets during the life cycle of e-government services.
The overall objective of OntoGov is to develop, test and validate a semantically enriched (ontology-enabled) platform that will facilitate the consistent composition, re-configuration and evolution of e-government services. More specifically, OntoGov aims to
(1) Define a high-level generic ontology for the e-government service lifecycle that will provide the-basis for designing lower-level domain ontologies specific to the service offerings of the participating public authorities.
(2) Develop a semantically-enriched platform that will enable public administrations to model the semantics and the processes of their e-government service offerings; easily and consistently re-configure their e-government services; and knowledge-enrich the provision of e-government services to citizens and businesses.
(3) Pilot and evaluate the OntoGov platform in three government service providers in three different European countries. The evaluation will not be limited merely to the technical evaluation; rather, it will take into account both organisational and social aspects.
(4) Provide the public administrations with a means that enables them to have an overview of their current service configuration model and easily re-configure it.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
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