Ontology Modeling for Goal Driven E-Government

This paper presents an approach to model ontologies in the e-Government domain so that they can be easily used to assist a citizen in formally expressing a goal that can in turn be used for service discovery. This process is also known as "goal discovery" and can become relatively complex depending on the regulations that have to be applied. By introducing some guidelines and constraints on the model, this process can be simplified and complexity can be hidden from the user. We found that the concept tree, used to guide the user in uniquely identifying the goal, is a good basis to start with, since it is easy to use and also easy to maintain in comparison to other approaches. Our next steps will be to automatically generate forms based on ontologies.