The resource ontologies for government services are formalizations of elements (concepts, attributes, relations, workflow structures, etc.) that can be used for modelling and semantic annotation of governmental services. This approach provides a way to integrate the existing governmental services - both electronic as well as the traditional non-electronic ones - on a semantic basis, by means of their semantic description. The resource ontologies, formally represented as expressions of the WSML language, were created and can be maintained by the WSMO Studio (www.wsmostudio.org).

The resource ontologies consist from the following parts:

• The AeG Core ontology contains definitions of basic elements that are shared among the pilot applications and used for modelling and semantic annotation of the atomic governmental services provided by public administrations.
• The Life events ontology contains conceptual descriptions of life events, complex goals (also referenced as generic scenarios) and elementary goals for the pilot applications.
• The Domain ontologies contain conceptual descriptions of domain-specific information for the pilot applications. It includes the concepts describing various forms, documents, certificates, location constraints, fees, questions, notification messages, etc., that are necessary to model the inputs and outputs of the provided governmental services.

More information:

• D7.1 Public administration resource ontologies.
  The ZIP package includes
  a) the report in PDF format,
  b) glossary of terms, XLS format,
  c) WSML implementation of the ontologies.
• D7.2 Guidelines for semantic markup of e-government resources [PDF]
• The resource ontologies are also available at the SEMIC repository.