Ontology Driven E-Government

This paper presents an approach to model ontologies for the e-Government domain as a basis for an integrated e-government environment. These ontologies can be used to assist a citizen in formally expressing a goal that can in turn be used for service discovery on the one hand and can also be used to express the necessary input of services that lays the basis for the subsequent form generation on the other hand. The collected input data is then transformed into a common data interchange standard format and forwarded to the SOA backend that executes the actual business process.