1.  Copyright 2005 Digital Enterprise Research Institute. All rights reserved. www.deri.org SemanticGov Project Overview and Objectives http://www.semantic-gov.org Adrian Mocan adrian.mocan@deri.org 16 March 2006

2. 2 Overview SemanticGov Project FP6-2004-IST-4-027517 Funded by the European Commission within the IST Programme Full Title “Providing Integrated Public Services to Citizens at the National and Pan-European level with the use of Emerging Semantic Web Technologies” Starting date January 1st, 2006 Duration 36 months Total Budget 4,375,000.00 € EU Funding 2,720,000.00 € Number of participating organizations 11 Number of countries 7

3. 3 SemanticGov Mission Reengineering of Public Administration (PA) systems –Internal Integration at the administrative intra- and inter- agency level –External integration with the society Building an infrastructure for: –Offering intelligent services by PA to: Streamline cooperation between PA agencies (both at national and European level) Easy the discovery of PA Services by the customers Facilitate the execution of complex services –Enable total reengineering of PA service provision Integrated, Intelligent Environment for Public Administration Service Provision at the National and Pan-European Level

4. 4 Planned Achievements Analysis and Design of a conceptual & technical architecture for PA services Create a top-level, reusable ontology for the PA domain Implement the architecture for PA Service Show cases, testing and integration

5. 5 Underlying Technologies Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) principle Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services –Starting point: Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO) Web Service Modeling Language (WSML) Web Service Execution Environment (WSMX) Following the major European and initiatives in the field European Interoperability Framework EU IDABC Programme The forthcoming i2010 group of Member States representatives Competitiveness & Innovation (CIP) Programme

6. 6 Work plan (I) Work Packages –WP1: Overall conceptual analysis Project presentation State of the Art Conceptual Analysis –WP2: Requirements analysis for national and Pan-European e-Government services Study of relevant projects/documents Identify technical, procedural, and semantic requirements for eGovernment services provision Conceptual architecture (business view) for the Communal Semantic Gateway Identification of the specific SemanticGov showcases –WP3: Design of Semantic Web Service Architecture for National and Pan- European e-Government services Application of WSMF to Semantic Government service Development of Mediator Support –WP4: PA domain ontology: design, and implementation Conceptual PA domain Modelling Design and Implementation of the PA domain Ontology Server

7. 7 Work plan (II) Work Packages –WP5: Development of SWS Execution Environment for National and Pan- European e-Government Services Design and Implementation of the SemanticGov software components –WP6: Development of the SemanticGov showcases Showcase for the Greek pilot site (Region of Central Macedonia) Showcase for the Italian pilot site (City of Torino) –WP7: Integration, testing and operation Integration and testing (at pilot sites) –WP8: Assessment and evaluation –WP9: Exploitation and dissemination –WP10: Project management

8. 8 Potential Impact Enhancing the capacity of national PA systems by providing a new paradigm for service provision Paving the way to the PA dimension of European unification  “Common European Administrative Space”  Facilitating the communication amongst EU national administration systems.

9. 9 Partners Centre for Research and Technology Hellas Leopold-Franzens University, Innsbruck Digital Enterprise Research Institute National University of Ireland, Galway Digital Enterprise Research Institute Ontotext Lab, Sirma Group Corp. Ministry of Interior, Public Administration and Decentralization Capgemini Software AG University of Rome “La Sapienza” ALTEC Region of Central Macedonia City of Turin

10. 10 Useful Links Web Site: http://www.semantic-gov.org Project Deliverables: http://www.semantic-gov.org/index.php?name=Deliverables#