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Web services implementations in government will definitely guide the citizen to a more proactive approach.  One of the presenters at the seminar discussed the "push" emerging technologies and the personalization of the citizen's electronic government experience.. through use of numerous technologies including automatic virtual environments and the perceived need by populations to have anytime, anywhere access to information/services even using a wearable computers.

I support the idea of the TC producing a guidance document on Web Services for Governments.   Through my experience in implementing one e-gov transaction system and based on my recent study i would suggest that prior to any government dictating all or a majority of services be delivered as Web services... a thorough study, discussion and consensus on the themes of Syndication and Rules Engine would be advised from my point of view as part of any e-gov web service implementation planning. 

For example, two OASIS colleagues just made me aware of the following workshop (see below)... how do we provide guidance or address the common vocabularies/category lists and models.... OR, can one or more government Web Services implementations be achieved without reaching consensus or standardization prior to syndication?

i think it is likely that each government entity could dictate a "set" of web services that provide common "over the counter" govt services...  but i view phase two of any government Web Service initiative to implement government services of "discovery" and "knowledge sharing" facilities.... based on individual citizen and societal requirements rather than govt IT imposed transactions.  thanks for the opportunity to comment.   diane

 The 2nd Workshop on
>>>                     Regulatory Ontologies
>>>              
>>>     WWW: www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa/WORM_2004.htm
>>>    Part of the International Federated Conferences (OTM '04)
>>>         **Proceedings published by Springer LNCS **
>>>             October 25-29 2004 , Larnaca, Cyprus
>>>
>>>In many application areas (such as e-commerce, e-governments, content
>>>standardizations, legal information systems etc.), the modeling of
>>>regulatory and legal knowledge is a critical. Modeling and deploying
>>>regulatory knowledge has some specifics that differentiate it out from
>  >>other kinds of knowledge modeling: reasoning methods and application
>>>scenarios, the legal weight (/order) of regulations, parsing legal texts
>>>requires special semantic patterns, the sensitivity in cross-boarder
>>>regulations, etc. This workshop aims at bringing together academics,
>  >>researchers, professionals and industrial practitioners to discuss issues
>>>involved in modeling regulatory ontologies. Regulatory ontologies
>>>typically involve the description of rules and regulations within the
>>>social world. In particular, we seek original contributions on the
>>>following issues of interest, but not limited to:
>>>
>>>-Engineering of regulatory ontologies: conceptual analysis,
>>>representation,
>>>    modularization and layering, reusability, evolution and dynamics, etc;
>>>
>>>-Multilingual and terminological aspects of regulatory ontologies;
>>>
>>>-Models of legal reasoning (from ontological viewpoint): regulatory
>>>    compliance, case-based reasoning, reasoning with uncertainty, etc.
>>>
>>>-Sensitivity on and harmonization of regulations;
>>   >
>>>-Regulatory metadata and content standardization (e.g. legal-XML/LeXML,
>>>    ADR/ODR-XML,...);
>>>
>>>-Regulatory ontologies of: property rights, persons and organizations,
>>   >  legal procedures, contracts, legal causality, etc;
>>>
>>>-Task models for socially regulated activities;
>>>
>>>-Experiences with projects and applications involving regulatory
>>>    ontologies in legal knowledge based systems, legal information retrieval,
>>>
>>>    e-governments, e-commerce;
>>>
>>>-Automated extraction of Information from regulatory documents.

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Subject: [egov] USE OF WEB SERVICES
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Now that Web Services seem to have reached a good level of maturity we 
here in the UK are considering when and how we should deploy them to 
support our e-government service delivery plans.  For example should our 
future architecture dictate that everything be deployed as a WS or is it a 
case of WS are more appropriate for different types of services.  A 
colleague of ours has produced the attached discussion document which 
attempts to answer this question and I'd welcome your views on this and 
any experience you already have of deploying WS for Gov applications. 

There may be some value in the TC producing a guidance  document on this 
for wider consumption.  What do you think?

Within Europe it may be necessary to agree on this if we are to support 
the concept of joined-up pan-European services so such a document might be 
valuable input to deliberations in Brussels.

Regards,
John



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