Description (short summary):
This report, compiled under the framework of the study "Bringing Together and Accelerating eGovernment Research in the EU" examines the status of information integration as applied to eGovernment research.

The first chapter, although introductory, has an important mission: to show why information integration in eGovernment today mainly relates to semantic integration and, at the same time, to align the reader with the most important trends and problems faced by the international research scene.

The second chapter emphasises on eGovernment applications, where ontologies and ontology integration in web services environments play a dominant role. Various examples of ontologies and ontology creation techniques and methods are given spanning applications from local government to multi-lingual support to legal knowledge representation and management.

The third chapter explores the international dimension of information integration through references to national and cross-border initiatives and related research activities.

The report concludes that information integration in the public sector requires agreement both at policy-making level and at administrative and technical level, given the vast size of the terminological system and the entities (communal, national, regional) involved.

Number of pages:
56

Nature of documentation: Independent reports and studies