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Employing Semantic Technologies for the Orchestration of Government Services

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Semantic Technologies for E-Government

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The main aim of the eGovernment is to provide efficient, secure, inclusive services for its citizens and businesses. The necessity to integrate services and information resources, to increase accessibility, to reduce the administrative burden on citizens and enterprises – these are only a few reasons why the paradigm of the eGovernment has been shifted from the supply-driven approach toward the connected governance, emphasizing the concept of interoperability (Archmann and Nielsen 2008). On the EU level, the interoperability is explicitly addressed as one of the four main challenges, including in the i2010 strategy (i2010 2005). The Commission’s Communication (Interoperability for Pan-European eGovernment Services 2006) strongly emphasizes the necessity of interoperable eGovernment services, based on standards, open specifications, and open interfaces. The Pan-European interoperability initiatives, such as the European Interoperability Framework (2004) and IDABC, as well as many projects supported by the European Commission within the IST Program and the Competitiveness and Innovation Program (CIP), illustrate the importance of interoperability on the EU level.

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The Access-eGov IST project No. FP6-2004-27020 is co-funded by The European Commission. The presented work was also based on research supported by the Slovak Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education and Academy of Science of the Slovak Republic within the 1/4074/07 Project “Methods for annotation, search, creation, and accessing knowledge employing metadata for semantic description of knowledge.”

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  3. Information Systems Lab., University of Macedonia, Egnatia Street 156, Thessaloniki, 540 06, Greece

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Sabol, T., Furdík, K., Mach, M. (2010). Employing Semantic Technologies for the Orchestration of Government Services. In: Vitvar, T., Peristeras, V., Tarabanis, K. (eds) Semantic Technologies for E-Government. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03507-4_3

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