1. Government Answers © Knowledge models for government information Marco Aarts Oslo, april 3 2008

2. Government Answers © Marco Aarts Knowledge Technologies Consultant marco.aarts@overheid.nl

3. Government Answers © The Dutch government integration E-government transparancy portals provinces municipalities ministries waterboards Public announcements permits legislation citizens central local personalisation companies collaborative service catalogues agencies front office web guidelines meta data search monitor

4. Government Answers © Gorvernment organisations of the Netherlands 443 municipalities 12 provinces 29 waterboards Central governments Ministries QUANGO’s … Regional cooperations

5. Government Answers © Metadata standards for publication Government organisations Central index XML 225+ government websites XML HTML XHTML overheid.nl “no wrong door”

6. Government Answers © Metadata and Controlled vocabularies

7. Government Answers © Bridging the gap location Life event theme Search term title language type publisher date/time location subject abstract in X + y / z 2 out Collections

8. Government Answers © Basic challenges How to define entities and their relations From many different sources and domains Not “one model to rule them all” Management of entities and relations by responsible authority Easy integration of existing models Easy expansion with new models In an open, standardized way for use in vendor tools

9. Government Answers © Why not a Topic Map indeed? ParliamentMunicipalitiesICTU Waterboards Ministry 1Ministry 2Cadastre

10. Government Answers © Issues and discussion How to define & manage: Knowledge models published subject indicators For entities – What level of granularity? For less concrete things – Life events, search terms Across many organisations and domains Through time and space

11. Government Answers © Topicana Marco Aarts Oslo, april 3 2008

12. Government Answers © OWMS Government-wide Web Metadata Standard Based on Dublin Core (Current) version 3.5: Elements Encoding schemes –Syntax encoding schemes (i.e. W3CDTF) –Controlled Vocabularies (Future) Version 4.0: Same data Expressed as entities and relations

13. Government Answers © Topicana Management tool for knowledge models For internal use Support for basic Topic Maps structure (TAO) Features Easy editing of knowledge models User interface Microsoft Excel export/import Publish to any format using XSL Custom processing for each individual topic XHTML, XML, XTM Data: OWMS 3.5, ready for OWMS 4.0

14. Government Answers © Controlled vocabularies

15. Government Answers © Controlled vocabulary: Ministries

16. Government Answers © Metadata element: DC.publisher

17. Government Answers © Occurrences

18. Government Answers © HTML publication

19. Government Answers © HTML publication

20. Government Answers © XTM publication