Access-e Gov - Project Outcomes

Project Outcomes

• The Access-eGov core system, including inner components for discovery, composition, mediation, and execution of the semantically annotated services.
• Extensions of the WSMO conceptual model. The WSMO conceptual model was adapted and modified by designing and implementing a workflow extension to the WSMO specification, based on the workflow CASheW-S model.
• Methodology: Requirement-driven approach. The method originally designed and developed within the Access-eGov project by one of the project partners (German University in Cairo), was used as the main resource for ontology creation. This approach provides a generic method how to collect, relate, and formally express the information needs of the public administrations, as service providers, to design the specific semantic structures and descriptions of provided governmental services.
• Resource ontologies, proposed as the specification of system data for the services and workflow structures within the Access-eGov system.
• Tools implemented as prototypes:
  • Annotation tool, which provides for public administration officers a capability to semantically annotate the resources as services, contact data, working hours, fees, etc. A set of forms and templates was designed for specification of preconditions and non-functional properties as parameters of the annotated government services, which can then be grouped into complex workflow sequences. The tool is designed as a standard web application, using the extended WSMO object model and JSF technology.
  • Personal Assistant client, a tool that provides browsing, discovery, and execution capabilities of the services for citizens and businesses according to a specified life event or goal. Users can browse sub-goals and provide their answers when customization input is requested. Then the system automatically resolves the sub-goals and navigates the user to a new set of sub-goals and services inferred from the conceptual model. The electronic services provided via standardized Web Service interface can be directly invoked. Finally, the citizen obtains all available information on the life event customized to his/her case, and has also the possibility to execute the actions required for particular services needed for the accomplishing of the life event. The Personal Assistant client was implemented as a web application using JSF technology. Layout, structure, and ordering of tabs in the interface are dynamically created from the annotated services and are customized according to the conditions of the given user.

Project outcomes from the German Field Test were preliminarily presented in November 2008 at the annual Mediatage Nord event in Kiel/Germany with attendance by official representatives and test participants from Schleswig-Holstein municipal and state administrations. The Access-eGov project showcased its final results at the CeBIT computer innovation fair in Hannover, Germany in March 2009.

The ePractice.eu community awarded Access-eGov with their Editor's Choice 2009 award.