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EGOV 2009: Electronic Government pp 341–352Cite as

Metadata Sets for e-Government Resources: The Extended e-Government Metadata Schema (eGMS+)

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In the dawn of the Semantic Web era, metadata appear as a key enabler that assists management of the e-Government resources related to the provision of personalized, efficient and proactive services oriented towards the real citizens’ needs. As different authorities typically use different terms to describe their resources and publish them in various e-Government Registries that may enhance the access to and delivery of governmental knowledge, but also need to communicate seamlessly at a national and pan-European level, the need for a unified e-Government metadata standard emerges. This paper presents the creation of an ontology-based extended metadata set for e-Government Resources that embraces services, documents, XML Schemas, code lists, public bodies and information systems. Such a metadata set formalizes the exchange of information between portals and registries and assists the service transformation and simplification efforts, while it can be further taken into consideration when applying Web 2.0 techniques in e-Government.

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  1. National Technical University of Athens, 9 Iroon Polytechniou, Athens, Greece

    Yannis Charalabidis, Fenareti Lampathaki & Dimitris Askounis

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  1. Institute for IS Research, University of Koblenz-Landau, Universitätsstraße 1, 56070, Koblenz, Germany

    Maria A. Wimmer

  2. The Information School, University of Washington, 98195-2840, Seattle, WA, USA

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  3. Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628, Delft, BX, The Netherlands

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  4. Institute of Informatics in Business and Government, University of Linz, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Roland Traunmüller

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Charalabidis, Y., Lampathaki, F., Askounis, D. (2009). Metadata Sets for e-Government Resources: The Extended e-Government Metadata Schema (eGMS+). In: Wimmer, M.A., Scholl, H.J., Janssen, M., Traunmüller, R. (eds) Electronic Government. EGOV 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5693. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03516-6_29

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