Roberto, V.; Rowlatt, M.; Davies, R.; Gugliotta, A.; Cabral, L. and Domingue, J. (2005). A semantic web service-based architecture for the interoperability of e-government services. In: Web Information Systems Modeling Workshop (WISM 2005) / 5th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2005), 25 Jul 2005, Sydney, Australia.
Abstract
We propose a semantically-enhanced architecture to address the issues of interoperability and service integration in e-government web information systems. An architecture for a life event portal based on Semantic Web Services (SWS) is described. The architecture includes loosely-coupled modules organized in three distinct layers: User Interaction, Middleware and Web Services. The Middleware provides the semantic infrastructure for ontologies and SWS. In particular a conceptual model for integrating domain knowledge (Life Event Ontology), application knowledge (E-government Ontology) and service description (Service Ontology) is defined. The model has been applied to a use case scenario in e-government and the results of a system prototype have been reported to demonstrate some relevant features of the proposed approach.
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