Towards a Semantic E-Community

Abstract

With the extensive application of the World Wide Web, an important application is community management, many governments have built district-oriented websites to serve the citizens who live, work in the community, named as e-community. The e-community should be up-to-date, personalized and flexible to provide information. Furthermore, they should be embedded with knowledge that can be utilized for content analysis and marketing intelligence and above all with minimal administrative overhead.

In this paper, we first systematically review major problems existing in the e-community, then we we show an practical project designed for the municipality of Ningbo, China, exploiting the currently emerging data exchange and metadata representation standards of the web to address such kinds of problems. And finally and we could see that inhabitants may benefit more from the e-community while constructing a semantic e-community under our methodology.