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A Framework for Semantic Model Ontologies Generation for E-government Applications

Authors:
Jean Vincent Fonou Dombeu
Magda Huisman
Zygmunt Szpak

Keywords: E-government; Interoperability;Ontology; OWL; Protégé; Software Engineering

Abstract:
The Web Ontology Language (OWL) standard is increasingly being used to build e-government service ontologies that are integrable and interoperable in e-government environments. However, current works employing OWL ontologies in e-government are more directed to the Semantic Web audience than to the broader e-government community. Furthermore, only a few of these works provide detailed guidelines for constructing OWL ontologies from a business domain. This paper presents a framework for generating semantic model ontologies in OWL syntax from a government service domain. Firstly, the government service domain is analyzed and a domain ontology is constructed to capture its semantic content. Thereafter, a semi-formal representation of the domain ontology is created with the ontology knowledge-base editor Protégé. Finally, the OWL ontology model is imported. This study aims at providing e-government developers, particularly those from the developing world, with an easy to use framework for practicing semantic knowledge representation in e-government processes; thus facilitating the design of e-government systems that can be easily integrated and maintained.

Pages: 152 to 158

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: February 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3956

ISBN: 978-1-61208-116-8

Location: Gosier, Guadeloupe, France

Dates: from February 23, 2011 to February 28, 2011