A public administration domain ontology for semantic discovery of eGovernment services

In this paper we present a top level public administration (PA) domain ontology. For this purpose we employ the generic public service object model of the governance enterprise architecture (GEA) providing PA domain specific semantics. We represent this service model using the Web ontology language (OWL). This domain ontology may serve as the knowledge base for eGovernment semantic Web applications. A sample application is presented that finds the public services that can be executed by a citizen based on his/hers profile using semantic discovery. The input to the application consists of the user profile, while the output returned consists of the public services that match the specified profile.