WEB SERVICES, NSDI, AND E-GOVERNMENT

Developing e-land administration systems have proven to be crucial for realizing e-government. Land administration systems in different countries are developed through consideration of existing economical, societal and legal structures. E-land administration includes the coordination among various parts of land administration businesses, online customer services, private partnership services and internal workflows. A variety of organizations collaborate in land administration due to the diversity of activities in this business. Therefore, it is necessary to utilize appropriate frameworks and technologies to assist the organizations in implementing seamless land administration. Although, currently, various initiatives exist to establish the coordination in land administration, there are still many deficiencies especially in data transferring and inter-organization processes. Since 2009, the municipality of Isfahan, as one of the major cities located in the centre of Iran, has been developing the Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) platform. Using this platform, in this study a webbased tool based on service oriented architecture (SOA) has been designed and implemented for approaching the seamless land administration. Different service chaining methods like Orchestration and Choreography have been also identify to harmonize web services in this study. In Orchestration a central coordinator is responsible to coordinates web services. Choreography supports modeling and enactment of inter-organizational business processes consisting of autonomous organizations. In other words, Orchestration can manage workflow in organizations and choreography can coordinate activities in an inter-organizational workflow. This paper explores an integrated utilization of the above mentioned service chaining methods to develop a seamless land administration system for Isfahan metropolis. A technique for composing the methods, using WPS (Web Processing Service) standard, is also proposed. In addition a prototype system has been developed to further investigate the proposed methods. Web service technologies and OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) frameworks are utilized for the development of the prototype system to satisfy data interoperability in an SDI environment. The paper finally explains that service oriented architecture of the system can resolve many issues relating to the coordination.

Egyptian e-government facilitates and introduces eservices for its partnerships such as citizens, businesses, employees and government itself. The combination of geographic information systems (GIS) as Egyptian new e-service with decision support systems (DSS) is used to help the ministry of finance. Our proposed e-service appears the important geographical criterions that affect the value of tax rates. The committee of tax rates determination for housing units used new e-service in order to reduce the time required to manually check all buildings in the country. So the estimation of the housing tax rates is based on the spatial data from the novel GIS e-service.

Chapman & Hall/CRC Computer & Information Science Series, 2004

2000

This paper presents a Web-based, database-oriented set of applications, namely "Public Information" and "Electronic Voting", to support information services (exchange and sharing) between Local Government authorities (Region, Prefecture and Municipalities) and the citizens. The whole set of services developed exploits Internet and Extranet technologies enabling asynchronous cooperation, manipulation of information from heterogeneous sources, security and easy administration, providing in parallel advanced telecommunication facilities. We propose an innovating approach for submitting questions, remarks and comments from citizen to Local authorities (prefecture) and receiving response/correspondence in a reasonable period of time (Public Information) and, on the other hand, a smart way to support voting on common subjects in which all local community is interested in. The system included applications and services were planned and implemented to be easily expandable to any organizational chart of any Local Administration. Both applications are based on state-of-the-art software platforms, integrating WWW and database. The system aims to become a pilot in future efforts relative with distribution and management information between and within different types of local authorities.

Kartografija i Geoinformacije, 2022

The paper describes the establishment of a webGIS pilot project in the city of Sinj, based on the research of the development of local spatial data infrastructure (LSDI) as described in the doctoral thesis (Marasović 2020). A set of LSDI development indicatorswere tested in the pilot project. The indicators to be tested were discovered in the mentioned doctoral thesis using statistical regression, statistical correlation and focus groups. The following key indicators have been identified: 1) funding from the local level, 2) awareness, 3) support for development from the decision makers, and 4) administration and citizens recognized as the main LSDI user groups. As an example of LSDI, most main stakeholders of the city of Sinj were interviewed and mapped according to their relevant capabilities, working processes and interaction between the main stakeholders. All the identified indicators were confirmed. The pilot project confirmed that the decision on investment in LSDI from the local level decision makers is essential for its implementation. For such a decision, raising the awareness of the decision makers and citizens about the benefits of LSDI is vital. Citizens and city administration were mapped as two stakeholders which interact most among the stakeholders. Delegating an employee responsible for the implementation and support from the decision makers during the implementation process are essential for success. Human Resources and Public Relationships management activities were recognized as very important in the process of raising awareness of LSDI.

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2010

The availability of reliable and ubiquitous urban services data is a key component of successful city management. The inability of traditional bureaucratic public administration to meet citizens' needs effectively has led to a search for new methods that grant more efficient, effective and reliable provision of services to citizens. Because there are many users with distinct computing platforms and preferences, urban services data must be accessible using interoperable solutions. Numerous solutions for providing interoperability are proposed by the Geospatial Information (GI) community, as well as the Information Technology (IT) community. The most widely used technologies for providing interoperability in the GI community are OGC services framework. In the IT community, Web services technologies provide full potential interoperability among heterogeneous computing platforms. However, these two kinds of services are not directly compatible. To provide an interoperable solution, OGC services and Web services should be integrated efficiently. The underlying issue in integrating OGC services and Web services is the gap between the predefined functionality inherent in the OGC services, and the lack of any predefined functionality in the Web services technologies. This paper identifies the implementation issues in integrating OGC services and Web services and then proposes standards-based approaches to overcome these integration issues. Afterwards, the paper explains the design and development of Standards-based Interoperable Services for Accessing Urban Services Data (SISAUSD).

This paper presents an Interoperability Framework, based on Web Services technology, which allows improving government-citizen and government-business interactions by supplying a single access point for e-government services. The proposed Framework represents a new kind of cooperation based on an application level that goes beyond the usual interoperability services. The paper describes the prototypal framework, built on open standards, and finally presents a sample application (Tourism Promotion Web Site) as an experimental result.

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International Journal of Information Engineering and Electronic Business, 2013

E-government is growing to a size that requires full attention fro m govern ments and demands collaboration and facilitation between private sectors and Non-Govern ment Organizat ions (NGOs). In order to reach successful e-government applicat ions, governments have to provide services to citizens, businesses and government agencies. In Jordan, egovernment applications are limited to an informat ive goal; they essentially offer info rmation and no services. Moreover, it is found that the traditional peer-to-peer integration of applications will result in a tightly coupled system that reduces the agility and expansibility of the E-Govern ment system. This paper proposes a novel integration mechanism based on the web service of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for the various E-government systems. We propose a stage model fo r E-Govern ment interoperability based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). In addition, a framework for E-government based on SOA is proposed. The proposed architectures are being examined using case study in the context of implementing environ mental license web service in the Jordanian min istry of environ ment.

Proc. of the 6th Int. Conference on Global …, 2001

2008 Third International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, 2008

In this paper we describe our experiments with large syntactic Web service models of a federated governmental information system for automatic composition of services. The paper describes a method for handling syntactic service models for synthesis of compound services. The method's implementation as a visual tool developed in software environment CoCoViLa is explained on an example from egovernment domain. Given a specification and a goal, the tool automatically synthesizes a program that generates a required composite service description in BPEL or OWL-S.

Now, spatial data is ubiquitous in one form or the other but the problems for the users are in their access, availability and meaningful integration. With the advent of web GIS all these problems has taken a different dimensions. Geo Web services (GWS) are capable of collaborating process control and sharing data and information across applications over different platforms hiding all the details of implementation and GWS can be invoked through the standard interface not just limited within one organization, but also across the organization. They are more suitable for handling huge-amount, distributed, and diverse geospatial data/information as compared to the conventional approach of geospatial data dissemination. However, the functions provided by isolated services are limited and for powerful functionality, these shared services require composition or chaining. It seems Geospatial Web Service Chain GWSC, will likely become the mainstream solution for Distributed Geographic Information Processing in the near future (Yang, 2009). However, it is a great challenge for beginners to create, deploy and utilize GWSC. People in Computer Science are usually not familiar with geospatial domain knowledge, Geospatial practitioners may lack the knowledge about web services and service chains and the end users may lack both. In India, pioneering work is being done in the domain of OGC compatible Geo Web Services (GWS) and various data producing agencies in the country are in the different stages of providing GWS from their respective organizations. National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) is about to launch a prototype of National Data Registry (NDR) where all such GWS can be registered and will be available for Service chaining for the creation of meaningful web services to the users. The various approaches reviewed in this paper will help in developing the appropriate strategies for the service chaining in this country.

Journal of Information Systems Operations Management, 2011

The e-Government interoperability is the ability of ICT components/applications to work together, in other words it is the ability of two or more diverse government (ICT) systems or components to sharing and re-use of information-services, inter-linking of administrative tasks, within and between sectors are essential factors for the delivery of high quality, innovative, seamless and customer-centric e-services. The organizational interoperability refers to the cooperation way of the public administrations processes, by defining the communication interfaces between processes. This approach addresses the interoperability of e-government applications at organizational and semantic level, adopting Web services (WS) and Semantic Web Services (SWS) as technological solutions. The e-Government interoperability is becoming an increasingly crucial issue, especially for developing countries that have committed to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 3. Enhanced government efficiency and effectiveness coupled with the delivery of basic public services to all citizens are essential components required to achieve such goals. In this context, most governments have finalized the design of national e-government strategies and are busy implementing priority programmes. Today the data needed by policy makers to make better decisions is available but inaccessible. Policy makers are faced not only with overlapping and uncoordinated data sources, but also with the absence of common terms of reference and means of representing these data. This results in the time consuming and complex cost of comparing data that is represented differently. Interoperability will allow data compiled by different agencies to be used together to make faster and better decisions. An important goal of governance is to enable the citizenry to have easier and faster access to government information and services. The seamless flow of data from one government office to another provides the policy maker with the information needed to draft sound policy and deliver better services.

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This work presents the design and development of a prototype module for the National Statistical Service of Greece, which supports the daily data collection procedures within the Organisation, while also removing a severe burden on the responding enterprises. The basic idea behind this effort was to enable enterprises to use and integrate it with their commercial and accounting packages, in