Semantic Web for E-Governance

Abstract

The importance of Web services has been recognized and widely accepted by industry and academic research. This paper describes an ongoing research project involving the implementation of e-Governance services on the Semantic Web. In Today's IT world, technology enhanced e-governance system is lacking the concept of resource sharing and operation integration. A citizen has go through related services to satisfy his particular needs, which takes lot of time. Semantic web (SW) has potential to overcome this problem. SW technology provides foundation to enable exchange of knowledge and information to co-ordinate business processes. It can automatically compose web services through automatic discovery, selection & execution of web services. This research paper is highlighting an introduction to SW & other aspects like Ontology, Knowledge Management, Web Services & their approaches. Also highlights on the e-governance concept, discuses role of SW in e-governance services, its application areas and challenges with help of primary research work based on secondary data.