A Model For e-Government Digital Document

The presence of a great amount of information is typical of bureaucratic processes, like the ones pertaining to public and private administrations. Such information is often recorded on paper or in different digital formats and its management is very expensive, both in terms of space used for storing documents and in terms of time spent in searching for the documents of interest. Furthermore, the manual management of these documents is absolutely not error-free. To efficiently access the information contained in very large document repositories, such as public administration archives, techniques for syntactic and semantic document management are required, so to ensure a large and intense process of document dematerialization, and eliminate, or at least reduce, the quantity of paper documents. In this work we present a novel RDF model of digital documents for improving the dematerialization effectiveness, that constitutes the starting point of an information system able to manage documental streams in the most efficient way. Such model takes into account the important need that is required in several E-Government applications which, depending on authorities or final users or time, provides different representations of the same multimedia contents

Semantic discovery and reuse of business process patterns

Patterns currently play an important role in modern information systems (IS) development and their use has mainly been restricted to the design and implementation phases of the development lifecycle. Given the increasing significance of business modelling in IS development, patterns have the potential of providing a viable solution for promoting reusability of recurrent generalized models in the very early stages of development. As a statement of research-in-progress this paper focuses on business process patterns and proposes an initial methodological framework for the discovery and reuse of business process patterns within the IS development lifecycle. The framework borrows ideas from the domain engineering literature and proposes the use of semantics to drive both the discovery of patterns as well as their reuse

Semantic Management of Multimedia Documents for E-Government Activity

E-Government activities have the aim to optimize the work of the governmental offices and offer, to citizens and businesses, effective, accessible and efficient services. Dematerialization, which is among the main activities of e-Government, is devoted to optimize information communication, in terms of consumed time and resources, as well as processing documents. In this work we propose a new model for multimedia document, suitable for e-Government activities, and an information system able to integrate and process different multimedia data type (as images, text, graphic objects, audio, video, composite multimedia, etc.) providing facilities for indexing, storage, retrieval, control of ultimedia data, together with long term preservation strategies