UNIFIED REPRESENTATION FOR E-GOVERNMENT KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Every governmental office requires knowledge, in order to increase its effectiveness. Hence, there exists need for a representation scheme to represent all types of governmental knowledge: factual, terminological, inferential, and regulated knowledge. Such a scheme must be Web-based supported for use in egovernment. Among the many Web-based representation schemes, none can represent all types of knowledge with a mechanism for expression of arbitrary axioms, rules and constraints. This paper proposes to represent e-government knowledge by means of XML Declarative Description (XDD)—a unified XMLbased knowledge representation with well-defined semantics and expressive means for direct and uniform representation of facts, ontologies, inferences and rules. Examples from a prototype of a knowledge management system for the regulating process of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Thailand are given which can be applied to any governmental offices.