EGODO Ontology: Sharing, Retrieving, and Exchanging Legal Documentation Across E-Government

EGODO Ontology: Sharing, Retrieving, and Exchanging Legal Documentation Across E-Government

Fernando Ortiz-Rodriguez, Jose Melchor Medina-Quintero, Sanju Tiwari, Vicente Villanueva
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4225-8.ch016
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Abstract

The electronic government is a new application field for the Semantic Web, and the ontologies play a key role in the development of the Semantic Web. Consequently, if we focus on the law and the public policy that base the governments and build a documentation ontology that encompasses the electronic governments' needs of services at the front-office and mainly at the back office, we will provide a starting point to enable a broad class of semantic electronic government application. In this chapter, the authors show the e-Government Documentation Ontology as a part of the EGO model in order to describe how to access and manage official and non-official documentation across the governments. They also show a couple of applications using the documentation ontology on a semantic information retrieval system and on a semantic peer-to-peer.
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Reference Model

A reference model was used to focus on and build a common understanding of the problem stated; figure 1 shows the different actors within the eGov. At the Back-office, the main actor is the Public Administration; it has many processes inside which should work properly to provide efficient services. The dynamics of the Public Administration provides a huge amount of information to be processed and these data should be managed in a transparent and efficient way.

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Egovernment reference model

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Within the Public Administration many processes take place and these must be carried out properly to provide efficient services; since the Public Administration functions in a decentralized way and the dynamics of this field generates a huge amount of information to be processed, it is necessary to manage this vast amount of information in a transparent and efficient way. Therefore, the implementation of eGov ontologies and applications is crucial. The main objective of designing this initial model in the eGov domain is aims to represent the legal issues behind the governments. This model should work as a framework to deploy semantic eGov systems, under the law and public policy approach.

The main objective of designing this initial model in the eGov domain is aims to represent the legal issues behind the governments. This model should work as a framework to deploy semantic eGov systems, under the law and public policy approach

Ego Model

The EGO Ontology Model reuses parts of the first two layers of LRI-Core model (Breuker, 2004) and is being adapted to the legal system of the Spanish and Mexican government. The EGO Ontology Model (Ortiz-Rodríguez & Villazón-Terrazas, 2006; Panchal et al., 2021) is one of the first efforts not intended for legal domain but for eGov domain instead, which is a domain that needs to consider the law, public policy, citizen services, administrative processes, best-practices, and also the different languages spoken within the nation.

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