Tutorial 2 - Electronic Governance - Technology

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Semantic Technologies in Electronic Government

Date/Time

Monday 01 December 2008, 14:00 - 16:40

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Description

Joined-up government depends fundamentally on semantics - on the computable representation of meaning, so that data is associated with appropriate metadata from the start, and this association is maintained as the data is manipulated. This tutorial will consist of a set of linked demonstrations of how semantic web technologies and metadata registries may be used to support data sharing in e-Government. In the demonstration, a simple set of operations will create semantically well-described XML data, which will be automatically transformed into RDF: a simple UML model will be designed and annotated with data elements and terms from appropriate e-Government; the model will be used to generate an XML schema, using the in-built features of the UML modelling program; SAWSDL annotations will be retrieved from the model into the schema, using a simple stylesheet transformation; the annotated schema will be transformed into an XForm, which will be customised using another XSLT to enforce stylistic standards upon the form and to target it at a particular application framework; the form will then be used to enter data, and a sample dataset will be validated against the schema and then transformed into RDF triples for subsequent data exchange and mining.

Biography

Jim Davies

Jim Davies is Professor of Software Engineering, and the Director of the Software Engineering Programme at the University of Oxford. He leads a group researching into model- and semantics-driven approaches to software development, with a particular interest in medical research informatics. Prior to joining Oxford University, Prof. Davies was a Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Reading (1993-1995). He holds a BA in Mathematics, MSc in Computation and DPhil in Computation (UK BCS/CPHC Distinguished Dissertation Prize) all from the University of Oxford.

Jeremy Gibbons

Jeremy Gibbons CEng CITP MBCS FIAP is Reader in Software Engineering at the University of Oxford, and Deputy Director of Oxford University Computing Laboratory. His research interests are in programming languages and methodology, and particularly in the use of programming language technology to capture and preserve properties of data; recent applications have been to the manipulation of semantic metadata. He has previously held lectureships at Oxford Brookes University and the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has a DPhil in Computation from the University of Oxford (1991), and a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh (1987).

Steve Harris

Steve Harris is a Research Officer at Oxford University Computing Laboratory. His research is practical semantics for data: finding ways in which the collection of semantic tools that has been developed over the last decade may be integrated and presented to users and developers so that they may be able to specify, develop and use information systems that gather well-explained, interoperable data. He has been instrumental in the UK "CancerGrid" project, and is currently the lead researcher on "Evolving Health Informatics". Previous posts include being Director of IT for the National Translational Cancer Research Network, Head of Software Development for the Institute for Cancer Studies at the University of Birmingham, and a Software Developer in the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit. He has a BSc and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Birmingham.