A Document Centric Approach for Analysis and Design of E-government Systems

Abstract

As the computer literacy spreads among public servants, the focus of communication between system analysts and users is moved on specification forms that appears formal and semi-formal documents, and spreadsheet like descriptions. The documents are going to be planned to serve both clients and officers of government, both external and internal processing. For system and business analyst, there is a new situation that requires the polishing and improving the readily available methods and methodologies. For accurate interpretations of valid requirements, the system analyst needs approaches that are grounded in formal methods. In e-government environment, the specification of requirements happens through calculation spreadsheet and/or office document. So that there is a need for a systematic and at least semi-formal approach that focuses on the ubiquitous documents. The models deduced from the document-centric point of view should be placed into an overall Information Systems Architecture. The linkage between the models provides the opportunity for cross validation and verification to keep up the integrity and consistency. The convoluted relationships among the models can be adequately represented by generalized hypergraphs that offer the chances a disciplined and correct systems analysis and design procedure.