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The use of the Semantic Web (SW) in eGovernment is reviewed. The challenges for the introduction of SW technology in eGovernment are surveyed from the point of view both of the SW as a new technology that has yet to reach its full potential, and of eGovernment as a complex digital application with many constraints, competing interests, and drivers, and a large and heterogeneous user base of citizens. The spread of SW technology through eGovernment is reviewed, looking at a number of international initiatives, and it is argued that pragmatic considerations stemming from the institutional context are as important as technical innovation. To illustrate these points, the chapter looks in detail at recent efforts by the UK government to represent and release public-sector information in order to support integration of heterogeneous information sources by both the government and the citizen. Two projects are focused on. AKTive PSI was a proof of concept, in which information was re-represented in RDF and made available against specially created ontologies, adding significant value to previously existing databases. Steps in the management of the project are described, to demonstrate how problems of perception can be overcome with relatively little overhead. Secondly, the data.gov.uk project is discussed, showing the technical means by which it has exploited the growth of the Web of linked data to facilitate re-representation and integration of information from diverse and heterogeneous sources. Drawing on experience in data.gov.uk the policy and organizational challenges of deploying SW capabilities at national scales are discussed as well as the prospects for the future.

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This work was supported in part by the EPSRC project EnAKTinG (http://www.enakting.org/about.html), grant no. EP/G008493/1, LiveMemories – Active Digital Memories of Collective Life, Bando Grandi Progetti 2006, Provincia Autonoma di Trento, the EU FET project Living Knowledge (http://livingknowledge-project.eu/), contract no. 231126, and the EU project WeGov (http://wegov-project.eu/), contract no. 248512. Our thanks to an anonymous reviewer for extremely helpful comments.

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Shadbolt, N., O’Hara, K., Salvadores, M., Alani, H. (2011). eGovernment. In: Domingue, J., Fensel, D., Hendler, J.A. (eds) Handbook of Semantic Web Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92913-0_20

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