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Authors: | Erik Wilde, Willy Müller |
Group: | Communication Systems |
Type: | Techreport |
Title: | Organizing Federal E-Government Schemas |
Year: | 2005 |
Month: | February |
Pub-Key: | wil05e |
Rep Nbr: | 212 |
Institution: | Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory (TIK), ETH Zürich |
Abstract: | In this paper we present an approach to organize e-government schemas in Switzerland. On the political side, Switzerland is a challenging environment for any federation-wide harmonization and cooperation, because many authorities are organized independently. On the technical side, we describe an approach which aims at increasing the federation-wide cooperation through providing interested parties with a low barrier-to-entry, and with clearly visible benefits through the continuous evolution of a directory of e-government schemas. This paper describes a light-weight Semantic Web approach, enabling schema authors to create namespace descriptions that provide a minimal semantic description of the namespace's subject. Using these namespace descriptions, RDF data is extracted and serves as source for a highly interlinked directory of e-government schemas in Switzerland. |
Location: | Zürich, Switzerland |
Resources: | [BibTeX] |