Invitation to participate in the core public service vocabulary working group

Dear all, 
I would like to invite you to participate in the Core Public Service 
Working Group launched in the context of e-Government Core Vocabularies 
community of practice on Joinup, under the auspices of Action 1.1 of the 
ISA Programme of the European Commission. 
The e-Government Core Vocabularies community of practice has the objective 
to bring together e-Government professionals to discuss the alignment of 
semantic specifications for e-Government through consensus on Core 
Vocabularies. A Core Vocabulary is a simplified, reusable, and extensible 
data model that captures the fundamental characteristics of an entity in a 
context-neutral way.
Core Public Service aims to face a long-standing problem in public service 
provision. Even within the same country, public services are documented 
(if at all) following different flavours of national, regional or local 
public service models. This heterogeneity triggers a debate on the 
meaning, the definition and the structure of a public service. To 
complicate the situation even more, public service descriptions delivered 
through e-Government portals are usually unstructured and not 
machine-readable. Hence, only a human reader is able to understand, 
process, integrate and use all the wealth that is available in millions of 
Web pages that contain information on public services. 
As a result, it is currently impossible to search across different 
e-Government portals for public services that are related or may address 
the same need. Especially in a cross-border setting, due to language 
barriers, different structures of government and different public service 
models, finding the right information about a particular public service 
can become a real challenge. It is very hard to aggregate information from 
different national, regional and local e-Government information systems or 
to combine existing services to create new ones. Moreover, it is not 
possible to create machine-readable public service descriptions that will 
be re-usable (following the Linked Open Government Data paradigm) and will 
enable functionalities like automated service discovery and composition. 
Our aspiration is that the Core Public Service Vocabulary should offer a 
technology independent, generic representation of the public service. The 
Core Public Service Vocabulary will derive through a collaborative process 
based on the Process and Methodology for creating core vocabularies. This 
will ensure that all different views are considered and that the 
vocabulary will emerge as the common denominator of existing national, 
regional and local public service models, providing thus a lingua franca 
that will enable the seamless exchange of services and information across 
different e-Government systems. 
Should you be interested in participating in the Core Public Service 
Vocabulary Working Group, please contact nikolaos.loutas@pwc.be. 
Your input to this discussion is valuable and will be highly appreciated. 
Sincerely, 
Nikolaos Loutas
PwC | Principal Advisor
Direct: +32 2 7104619 | Mobile: +32 491 965851 | Fax: +32 2 7104069
Email: nikolaos.loutas@pwc.be
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