Knowledge resources in public administrations are subject to continual change. These changes impose the need for keeping knowledge resources updated. In this paper we present an ontology-based approach for the systematic management of changes in knowledge resources in public administrations, which has been implemented in the SAKE semantics-based software framework. The current implementation allows management of explicit changes (i.e., alterations in the content of a document that have implications in the decision making process) and implicit changes (i.e., changes related to the usage of a document, the comments attached to it and related communication between users of the document).
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Chaumun, M.A., Kabaili, H., Keller, R.K., Lustman, F.: A change impact model for changeability assessment in object-oriented software systems. In: Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, pp. 130–138 (1999)
Fernandez-Lopez, M., Gomez-Perez, A., Sierra, J.P., Sierra, A.P.: Building a chemical ontology using methontology and the ontology design environment, IEEE Intelligent Systems, Volume 14, Number 1, pp.37–46, 1999.
Hardless, C., Lindgren, R., Nulden, U., Pessi, K.: The evolution of knowledge management system need to be managed. Journal of Knowledge Management Practice, Vol. 3 (2000)
Jones, C.: Software change management. Computer, Vol. 29, Issue 2, pp. 80 – 82 (1996)
Klein, M., Fensel, D.: Ontology versioning for the Semantic Web. In: Proceedings of the 1st International Semantic Web Working Symposium (SWWS), Stanford University, California, USA, pp. 75–91 (2001)
Klein, M., Noy, N.F.: A component-based framework for ontology evolution, In Proceedings of Workshop on Ontologies and Distributed Systems at 18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-03), Acapulco, Mexico, CEUR-WS Volume 71, available as Technical Report IR-504, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2003.
Kotonya, G., Hutchinson, J.: Managing change in COTS-based systems. In: Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance. ICSM'05, pp. 69 – 78 (2005).
Nilsson, A., Josefsson, U., Ranerup, A.: Improvisational change management in the pubic sector., Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, (2001)
Papantoniou, A., Hattab, E., Afrati, F., Kayafas, E., Loumos, V.: Change management, a critical success factor for e-government. In: Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, pp. 402 – 406 (2001)
Stojanovic, L., Maedche, A., Motik, B., Stojanovic, N.: User-driven ontology evolution management. In: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW'02), Siguenza, Spain, LNCS 2473, pp. 285–300 (2002)
Stojanovic, L., Maedche, A., Stojanovic, N., Studer, R.: Ontology evolution as reconfiguration-design problem solvin. In: Proceedings of the international conference on Knowledge capture (K-CAP'03), Sanibel Island, FL, USA, pp. 162–171 (2003)
Stojanovic, N., Stojanovic, L.: Usage-oriented evolution of ontology-based knowledge management systems. In: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Ontologies, Databases and Application of Semantics (ODBASE 2002), Irvine, CA, pp. 1186–1204 (2002)
Tripathi, U. K., Hinkelmann, K.: Change Management in Semantic Business Processes Modeling. In: Proceedings of Eighth International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, ISADS '07, pp. 155 –162 (2007).
U.K. Cabinet Office, E-GIF: E-Government Interoperability Framework. Modernizing Government, London (2000)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding authors
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2009 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
About this paper
Cite this paper
Stojanovic, N., Apostolou, D., Ntioudis, S., Mentzas, G. (2009). A semantics-based software framework for ensuring consistent access to up-to-date knowledge resources in Public Administrations. In: Sicilia, MA., Lytras, M.D. (eds) Metadata and Semantics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77745-0_31
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77745-0_31
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-0-387-77744-3
Online ISBN: 978-0-387-77745-0
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)