Metadata Standards for Semantic Interoperability in Electronic Government
Jim Davies‚ Steve Harris‚ Charles Crichton‚ Aadya Shukla and Jeremy Gibbons
Abstract
Effective data sharing, across government agencies and other organisations, relies upon agreed meanings and representations.
A key, technological challenge in electronic governance is to ensure that the meaning of data items is accurately recorded,
and accessible in an economical—effectively, automatic—fashion. In response, a variety of data and metadata
standards have been put forward: from government departments, from industry groups, and from organisations such as the ISO
and W3C.
This paper shows how the leading standard for metadata registration—ISO11179—can be deployed
without the need for a single, monolithic conceptualisation of the domain, and hence without the need for universal agreement
upon a particular model of electronic governance. The advantages of this approach are discussed with regard to the UK
eGovernment Interoperability Framework (eGIF) and the UK Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary (IPSV).
Details
| Address |
Cairo |
| Book Title |
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance |
| Month |
December |
| Note |
Received a Best Paper Award |
| Year |
2008 |
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Charles Crichton | Jim Davies | Jeremy Gibbons | Steve Harris | Aadya Shukla |
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