Abstract
We describe an experience of design of a repository of services, performed in an Italian project called Government for Businesses (G4B). The repository G4B represents several properties and characteristics of a wide number of services provided by public administrations to businesses in Italy. An ontology has been built on top of the repository, enriching it with several unifying classifications and metadata. The different usefulness of the repository for service providers, public administrations, businesses are discussed, and several examples are presented.
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Barone, D., Viscusi, G., Batini, C., Naggar, P. (2006). A Repository of Services for the Government to Businesses Relationship. In: Etzion, O., Kuflik, T., Motro, A. (eds) Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems. NGITS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4032. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11780991_5
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