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This chapter describes the major aspects of an e-government platform in which semantics underpins more traditional technologies in order to enable new capabilities and to overcome technical and cultural challenges. The design and development of such an e-government Semantic Platform has been conducted with the financial support of the European Commission through the Terregov research project: “Impact of e-government on Territorial Government Services” (Terregov 2008). The goal of this platform is to let local government and government agencies offer online access to their services in an interoperable way, and to allow them to participate in orchestrated processes involving services provided by multiple agencies. Implementing a business process through an electronic procedure is indeed a core goal in any networked organization. However, the field of e-government brings specific constraints to the operations allowed in procedures, especially concerning the flow of private citizens’ data: because of legal reasons in most countries, such data are allowed to circulate only from agency to agency directly. In order to promote transparency and responsibility in e-government while respecting the specific constraints on data flows, Terregov supports the creation of centrally controlled orchestrated processes; while the cross agencies data flows are centrally managed, data flow directly across agencies.
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The term “core ontology” should be understood by reference to the expression “core business.” It denotes a regional ontology developed for the domain of social services.
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Essentially meaning in different name spaces.
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Nomino was freely available at the beginning of the project. However, its site was disconnected and we understand that Nomino has been integrated to a set of services at the following address: http ://www.nominotechnologies.com.
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Sandra is a linguistic tool that has been developed during the Terregov project. It is available on the Terregov site.
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See later for the ontology formalism.
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We used Touchgraph Wiki Browser that was freely available at the time from http://www.touchgraph.com/.
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The SOL tool suite and the ontology are available on the Terregov open source site: http://terregov-oss.eupm.net/my_spip/index.php.
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The approach is somewhat similar to the Latex approach.
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The work presented in this chapter has been developed within the project Terregov (Terregov 2008), an integrated project cofunded by the European Commission under the IST (Information Society Technologies) Program, e-government unit, under the reference IST-2002-507749.
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Sbodio, M.L., Moulin, C., Benamou, N., Barthès, JP. (2010). Toward an E-Government Semantic Platform. In: Vitvar, T., Peristeras, V., Tarabanis, K. (eds) Semantic Technologies for E-Government. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03507-4_9
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