EGODO Ontology

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.