A Method for eGovernment concepts Interoperability Assessment

Since the late 1990s, with the raising of eGovernment concepts and the increase use of ICT by public administration entities, the need for collaboration among these organizations is a reality with which systems, managers and other stakeholders must deal. In order to increase performance, to supply the online services, and the search for cost reductions the governments paradigms focus, now more than ever, on how to better manage information. As the need of these 'inter operations' is real, interoperability is a key factor for organizations facing with collaborative-cooperative environments. The modern architecture of information systems (ISs) is based on distributed networks with a grand challenge of representing and sharing knowledge managed by ISs and consequently, to remove semantics interoperability barriers. This paper presents a literature review and a research method that defines the mechanisms for the creation of guidelines, attributes and an assessment methodology in public administration domain. The presented research strategy identifies the basic phases and activities, purposing a structure of how to collect and compose the guidelines, and how to define an assessment method through the help of semantic technologies.