Executive summary

D52: Implementation of SmartGov Knowledge-Based Core Platform

The SmartGov project, fully entitled as "A Governmental Knowledge-based Platform for Public Sector Online Services", commenced on the 1st of February 2002. The aim of the SmartGov platform is to introduce a holistic approach for the use of electronic forms within the public sector. This approach is focused on two main axes:

Integrating emerging standards with state-of-the-art technology and with advances in areas such as knowledge management, Web technologies, interoperability and accessibility.
Introducing this technology in a systematic manner by adopting new process models and process re-engineering and process improving methods.

In order to support these axes, a complete knowledge-based development environment will be provided to the public authorities, supporting all phases of electronic, form-based services development, deployment and maintenance. This environment will be complemented with a generic framework, including process models, reference models and social acceptance models for the introduction of electronic services.

In the workpackages that have been completed insofar, the state of the art has been reviewed (WP3 [D31]), the current status of the participating public authorities has been captured (WP3), the user requirements have been analysed (WP4 [D41]) and the high-level specifications of the system have been derived (WP4). After that the software architecture document of the platform was produced, which reported on work carried out in WP5 and WP6 and provided detailed system specifications for the architectural modules identified in WP4 as parts of the SmartGov platform. The present document is an elaboration of the low level design that was delivered within the aforementioned joined deliverable (D51-D61 [D51-61]) and constitutes the outcome of a number of iterations that were performed during the development phase; as such it contains more implementation details than the previous deliverable. It corresponds to the implementation work carried out within workpackage 6 and does not include components that were developed outside this workpackage. This is due to the suggestion of the review panel to keep separate the two implementation deliverables (D52 and D62). Hence the implementation work reported here presents the implementation details of the following components: Knowledge Management and Service Design Front-End tool.

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Last updated: October 2003