Monthly Archives: January 2013

Publications

In the Semicolon II-project, dissemination of findings and results to national and international recipients shall take place through journals, conferences and web-publishing. In the lists below, dissemination from both Semicolon I and Semicolon II is repoted.
ARTICLES, PAPERS, BOOKS
Semicolon II:

Hellang, Ø. and Flak, L.S. (2012): Measuring e-government performance: Searching for key performance indicators. Presented at the 9nth Scandinavian Workshop on eGovernment, Copenhagen, Denmark, February 9-10, 2012.

Solli-Sæther H. and Flak, L.S: (2012): Benefits realization in e-government interoperability efforts. Presented at the 9th Scandinavian Workshop on eGovernment, Copenhagen, Denmark, February 9-10, 2012.

Audun Stolpe and Martin G. Skjæveland: Preserving Information Content in RDF using Bounded Homomorphisms. In: Elena Simperl et al., editor, ESWC 2012, 2012.

Flak, L. S.& Solli-Saether, H.: The Shape of Interoperability: Reviewing and Characterizing a Central Area within eGovernment Research. 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2012), 4-7 Jan. 2012. Pp. 2643-2652.

Per Myrseth, Jørgen Stang, David Skogan: Visualization of Complex Relations in E-Government Knowledge Taxonomies. International Conference Information Visualisation. 12.-15. July 2011, London.

Arne Thorstensen (Norwegian Tax Administration) and Lasse Udjus (Karde): eDialogue: Government innovation in Norway. The International Conference on E-Business and E-Government (ICEE2011), Shanghai, May 2011.

Terje Grimstad (Karde) and Per Myrseth (Det Norske Veritas): Information Governance as a basis for cross-sector e-services in public administration. The International Conference on E-Business and E-Government (ICEE2011), Shanghai, May 2011.

Per Myrseth, Jørgen Stang and Vibeke Dalberg (Det Norske Veritas): A data quality framework applied to e-government metadata: A prerequsite to establish governance of interoperable e-services. The International Conference on E-Business and E-Government (ICEE2011), Shanghai, May 2011.

Audun Stolpe and Martin G. Skjæveland: From spreadsheets to 5-star data in the cultural heritage domain: A case study of the yellow list. Norsk informatikkonferanse (NIK 2011). Tapir 2011, pp. 13-24.

Dumitru Roman and David Norheim: An Overview of Norwegian Linked Open Data. Applications in Regional Development and Environmentally Friendly Behavior. Accepted for publication in The proceedings of The Fourth International Conference on Information, Process, and Knowledge Management (eKNOW 2012), January 30 – February 4, 2012 – Valencia, Spain.

Audun Stolpe and Martin G. Skjæveland: Conservative Repurposing of RDF Data. The 10th International  Semantic Web Conference. Bonn, Germany 2011. Poster presentation.

Semicolon I:

Hans Solli-Sæther: A framework for analysing interoperability in electronic government. Int. J. Electronic Finance, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2011. P. 32-48.
Audun Stolpe: Norm-system revision: Theory and application. Artificial Intelligence and Law  Volume 18, Number 3, 247-283, Springer 2010.
Hans Solli-Sæther: Analytical Framework for e-Government Interoperability. In: Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds): eChallenges e-2010 Conference Proceedings, Warsaw, Poland, 2010.
Terje Grimstad og Per Myrseth: Information Governance and Metadata Strategies as a Basis for Cross-sector e-Services. In: Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds): eChallenges e-2010 Conference Proceedings, Warsaw, Poland, 2010.
Arne Thorstensen og Lasse Udjus: Future e-Government: From Monologue to Dialogue. In: Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds): eChallenges e-2010 Conference Proceedings, Warsaw, Poland, 2010.
Riitta Hellman: Organisational Barriers to Interoperability. In: Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds): eChallenges e-2010 Conference Proceedings, Warsaw, Poland, 2010.
Per Myrseth et al.: Utilizing Ageing Information. In: David O’Donnell (Ed.): The Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on eGovernment National Centre for Taxation Studies and University of Limerick, Ireland, 17-18 June 2010. P. 279-287.
Audun Stolpe: Relevance, derogation and permission: A case for a normal form for codes of norms. DEON 2010 10th International Conference on Deontic Logic in Computer Science, 7-9 July 2010, European University Institute, Fiesole (Firenze). Preprint.
Per Myrseth et al.: Utilizing Aging Public Sector Information. Scandinavian Workshop on e-Government, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden, 27-28 January, 2010.
Hans Solli-Sæther and Petter Gottschalk: The Modeling Process for Stage Models. Accepted for publication in the Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, 20: 279–293, 2010.
Hans Solli-Sæther: Maturity in e-government interoperability: an exploratory study of e-services in Norway. Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference e-Society 2010, Porto, Portugal. S. 115-122.
Audun Stolpe: A theory of permission based on the notion of derogation, forthcoming in Journal of Applied Logic, Elsevier, 2010.
Hans Solli-Sæther and Petter Gottschalk: Generations of Struggle in Stages of Growth Modeling. Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute 40th annual meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 14-17th November, 2009. P. 881-887.
Terje Grimstad: Semantic and Organisational Interoperability Issues in Public Sector in Norway. 1st forum on interoperability and applicative cooperation in e-government. Regione Marche and University of Camerino Camerino, Itlay, 15th-16th October 2009. (Short paper).
Riitta Hellman: Organizational Barriers to Interoperability: Norwegian Case Stydy. H. Jochen Scholl, Marjn Janssen, Roland Traunmüller, Maria A. Wimmer (Eds.): Electronic Government: Proceedings of ongoing research and projects of EGOV 09. 8th International Conference, EGOV 2009. Trauner Druck: Linz, Schriftenreihe Informatik # 30, 2009. Pp. 182-189.
Riitta Hellman: Barriers to organizational interoperability – the Norwegian case. Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference e-Society 2009, Barcelona, 25-28 February, 2009. Pp. 160-167.
Terje Grimstad: Semantic and Organisational Interoperability in Communicating and Collaborating Organisations. Interconnecting Europe, Semantic Interoperability Centre Europe,Conference Book, 2008. Pp. 23-28.
Petter Gottschalk: E-Government Interoperability: Frameworks for Aligned Development. In: Dr. Sahu, Dr. Dwivedi, and Dr. Weerakkody (eds.): E-Government Development and Diffusion: Inhibitors and Facilitators of Digital Democracy. IGI Global publication. Pp. 23-33.
Petter Gottschalk: Maturity levels for interoperability in digital government. Government Information Quarterly 26 (2009) 75–81.
Petter Gottschalk and Hans Solli-Sæther (2009): Interoperability in E-Government: Stages of Growth. In S. Chhabra & M. Kumar (Eds.), Integrating E-Business Models for Government Solutions: Citizen-Centric Service Oriented Methodologies and Processes. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Petter Gottschalk and Hans Solli-Sæther: E-Government Interoperability and Information Resource Integration: Frameworks for Aligned Development. Idea Group Publishing, 2009.
Petter Gottschalk and Hans Solli-Sæther: Stages of E-Government Interoperability. Electronic Government: An International Journal, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2008.
REPORTS, NOTES
Semicolon II:

None, yet.

Semicolon I:

Several authors : Semicolon: State of the Art. Report No. 2008-0996, Det Norske Veritas, December 2008.
SPEECHES, PRESENTATIONS
Semicolon II:

Per Myrseth: A data quality framework applied to e-government metadata. A prerequsite to establish governance of interoperable e-services. Det Norske Veritas. The International Conference on E-Business and E-Government (ICEE2011), Shanghai, May 2011.

Arne Thorstensen: eDialogue – Government innovation in Norway. Norwegian Tax Administration. The International Conference on E-Business and E-Government (ICEE2011), Shanghai, May 2011.

Terje Grimstad (Karde) and Per Myrseth (Det Norske Veritas): Information Governance and Metadata Strategies as a Basis for Cross-sector e-Services. The International Conference on E-Business and E-Government (ICEE2011), Shanghai, May 2011.

Semicolon I:

Terje Grimstad: Collaboration for a better society. Verdikt Conference, Oslo, 1. November 2010.
Hans Solli-Sæther: Analytical Framework for e-Government Interoperability. eChallenges Conference, Warsaw, Poland, October, 2010.
Terje Grimstad: Information Governance and Metadata Strategies as a Basis for Cross-sector e-Services. eChallenges Conference, Warsaw, Poland, October, 2010.
Arne Thorstensen: Future e-Government: From Monologue to Dialogue. eChallenges Conference, Warsaw, Poland, October, 2010.
Riitta Hellman: Organisational Barriers to Interoperability. eChallenges Conference, Warsaw, Poland, October, 2010.
Per Myrseth: Examples on how ontologies can ease aggregations, drilldowns and visualizations on macro data. Preliminary results from ongoing work in the Semicolon-project. Open Data Foundation Europe 2010 meeting, 7-8 of July 2010, Tilburg University, Netherlands.
Terje Grimstad: Common goals and bureaucratic obstacles for interoperability. Semantic Days, Stavanger 2nd May 2010.
Terje Grimstad: Goals and challenges for public sector. Semantic Days, Stavanger 31st May 2010.
Per Myrseth: Some thoughts on measuring Semantic Interoperability on Public Sector Information. eGovMonNet, Gent, 30.11.2009.
Arthur Reinertsen: Semicolon Semantic and Organisational Interoperability in Communicating and Collaborating Organisations – issues in public sector in Norway. eGovMonNet, Gent, 30.11.2009.
Terje Grimstad: How to put technology in context with citizens and businesses in focus – in practice. eGovernment Research and Innovation: Empowering Citizens through Government Services across Sectors and Borders Preconference for the EU 5th Ministerial eGovernment Conference. Malmö, 18. november 2009.
Hans Solli-Sæther and Petter Gottschalk: Generations of Struggle in Stages of Growth Modeling. Decision Sciences Institute 40th annual meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 14.-17. November, 2009.
Terje Grimstad: Semantic and Organisational Interoperability Issues in Public Sector in Norway. 1st forum on interoperability and applicative cooperation in e-government. Regione Marche and University of Camerino Camerino, Itlay, 15th-16th October 2009.
Riitta Hellman: Organizational Barriers to Interoperability: Norwegian Case Stydy. 8th International EGOV Conference 2009, 30.8.-3.9.2009, Linz, Austria.
Riitta Hellman: Barriers to organizational interoperability – the Norwegian case. IADIS International Conference e-Society, 28.2.2009, Barcelona, Spain.
BROCHURES, Other
Semicolon II:

None, yet.

Semicolon I:

Terje Grimstad: Collaboration for a better society. Abstract. Verdikt Conference, Oslo, 1. November 2010.
Per Myrseth: Examples on how ontologies can ease aggregations, drilldowns and visualizations on macro data. Preliminary results from ongoing work in the Semicolon-project. Open Data Foundation Europe 2010 meeting, 7-8 of July 2010, Tilburg University, Netherlands. Time: Thursday 8. July, start after 1 hour 11 minutes, stop 1:43:00.
Semicolon and Ifi with Anzo by Cambridge Semantics. Demo on Youtube. 2010.
Semicolon I fact sheet.
Semicolon overheads.

 
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Semicolon II-project in brief

The main goal of the Semicolon II-project is to test and establish methods, tools and performance indicators that can be used as the basis for recommendations and standards for enhancing collaboration across the public sector in Norway.

Better collaboration will lead to relevant, future-oriented and cost-effective services to businesses and citizens.

The project will:

  1. Identify obstacles for collaboration and prescribe strategies and solutions to overcome these.
  2. Develop methods and tools for establishing efficient and effective collaboration, and identify performance indicators to measure the effect of the collaboration.
  3. Use the above-mentioned methods and tools in example projects in the public sector organisations, and measure the effects by means of the performance indicators.
  4. Disseminate results and experiences to the public sector, the ICT-industry and the academia.
  5. Establish an arena for collaboration between public sector organisations, competent businesses and research organisations.

The work will be performed in example projects and address a wide range of topic areas such as organisational issues, semantic issues, legal issues, collaboration platforms etc.

The project partners are presented here.

 

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Partner organisations

Below, you will find links to the English web-pages of the organisations which participate in the Semicolon II-project:

PUBLIC BODIES

DIFI – Agency for Public Management and eGovernment

Norwegian Directorate for Health

The Brønnøysund Register Centre

The Directorate for Taxes

The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities (KS)

R&D-PARTNERS

Computas AS

Det Norske Veritas (DNV)

Karde AS

KITH – Norwegian Centre for Informatics in Health and Social Care

NorStella – Foundation for e-Business and Trade Procedures

SINTEF

UNIVERSITIES

Linköping University

Norwegian School of Management

University of Agder

University of Oslo, Department of Informatics

University of Oslo, Department of Private Law

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Links to the rest of the world

On this page you will find a collection of links to important projects, documents, organisations and meeting places. This is a sub-set of links presented on the Norwegian Semicolon II-pages. Please inform the web-editor about sources that should be added on this page.
PROJECTS
SEMIC.EU (Semantic Interoperability Centre Europe) – a EU-prosjekt aiming at interoperability between European eGovernment-services.
SemanticGov – Providing Integrated Public Services to Citizens at the National and Pan-European level with the use of Emerging Semantic Web Technologies.
DOCUMENTS, JOURNALS and PUBLICATIONS
Survey report Survey of Trends and Developments in the Use of Electronic Services for Taxpayer Service Delivery. OECD, March 2010.
UN E-Government Survey 2008. From E-Government to Connected Governance.
IDABC: Draft document as basis for EIF v 2.0
European Interoperability Framework is an EU-initiative.
Linking up Europe: the Importance of Interoperability for eGovernment Services.
eGovernment-status in European countries.
Manuela Finetti: Interoperability matters.

European Journal of ePractice nº 10: Implementing eAccessibility as a service quality factor.European Journal of ePractice nº 9: Government 2.0 – Hype, Hope, or Reality?
European Journal of ePractice nº 8: eHealth and beyond.
European Journal of ePractice nº 7: eParticipation.
European Journal of ePractice nº 6: Key enablers for eTransformation? eID, Interoperability and Open Source?
European Journal of ePractice nº 5: High impact services.
European Journal of ePractice nº 4: Efficiency and efffectiveness.
European Journal of ePractice nº 3: Inclusive e-services.
European Journal of ePractice nº 2: New e-ways of doing the Government’s job.
European Journal of ePractice nº 1: The socio-technical nature of good practice exchange.

Electronic Government, an International Journal (EG) by Inderscience publishers.
Electronic Journal of e-Government by Academic Conferences Limited.
Government Information Quarterly (GIQ) by ElsevierInformation Polity av IOS Press.
International Journal of Electronic Governance (IJEG) by Inderscience publishers.
International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR) by IGI Publishers.
Journal of Information Technology & Politics by Haworth Press.
Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy by Emerald.
ORGANISATIONS
IDABC – Interoperable Delivery of European eGovernment Services to public Administrations, Businesses and Citizens.
NorStella – Foundation for e-Business and Trade Procedures (Norway).
CONFERENCES and other MEETING PLACES
Semantic Days 2011

IFIP EGOV 2011
11th European Conference on eGovernment – ECEG 2011
eChallenges e-2011
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Contact Information

PROJECT OWNERS
Principal: Reserach Council of Norway, Verdikt-programme, P.O.Box 2700 St. Hanshaugen, 0131 Oslo, Norway. Contact person: Trond Knudsen, Telephone: + 47 – 22037527.

Project owner: Karde AS. P.O.Box 69 Tåsen, N-0801 Oslo, NOrway. Contact person: Terje Grimstad, Mobile + 47 – 90844023.
WORK PACKAGES
WP1: WP-leader (project manager) Terje Grimstad, Karde AS, Mobile: + 47 – 90844023.
WP2-WP6: To be added later. Please contact project manager.
CASES
To be added later. Please contact project manager.
PARTICPATING ORGANISATIONS
Computas AS: David Norheim, e-mail: david.norheim@computas.no, telephone: +47 – 95946949.

Det Norske Veritas: Erling Svendby, e-mail: erling.svendby@dnv.com, telephone: +47 – 41542412.

DIFI – Agency for Public Management and eGovernment: Kristian Bergem, e-mail: kristian.bergem@difi.no, telephone: +47 – 90786438.

Karde AS: Terje Grimstad, e-mail: terje.grimstad@karde.no, telephone: +47 – 90844023.

KITH – Norwegian Centre for Informatics in Health and Social Care: Tom Christensen, e-mail: tom.christensen@kith.no, telephone: +47 – 91165970.

KS – The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities: Line Richardsen, e-mail: line.richardsen@ks.no, telephone: +47 – 91761877.

Linköping University : Göran Goldkuhl, e-mail: goran.goldkuhl@liu.se, telephone: +46 705529815.

NorStella – Foundation for e-Business and Trade Procedures: Arild Haraldsen, e-mail: arild.haraldsen@norstella.no, telephone: +47 – 90199531.

Norwegian Directorate for Health: Kristian Skauli, e-mail: kristian.skauli@helsedir.no, telephone: 47 – 24163243.

Norwegian School of Management: Hans Solli-Sæther, e-mail: hans.solli-sather@bi.no, telephone: +47 – 90944815.

SINTEF: Arne Jørgen Berre, e-mail: arne.j.berre@sintef.no, telephone: +47 – 92047452.

The Brønnøysund Register Centre: Håkon Olderbakk, e-mail: hakon.olderbakk@brreg.no, telephone: +47 – 91338993.

The Directorate for Taxes: Arne Thorstensen, e-mail: arne.thorstensen@skatteetaten.no, telephone: +47 – 91397600.

University of Agder: Leif Skiftenes Flak, e-mail: leif.flak@uia.no, telephone: +47 – 92459786.

University ofi Oslo – Institute for Informatics: Arild Waaler, e-mail: arild.waaler@ifi.uio.no, telephone: +47 – 95212954.

University of Oslo – Institute for Private Law: Dag Wiese Schartum, e-mail: d.w.schartum@jus.uio.no, telephone: +47 – 22850077.
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Case Studies

The empirical work in the Semicolon II-project takes place in partner organisations in the public sector. The field work is organised as case studies within a number of areas.

For current status, please contact project manager.

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Work Packages

The Semicolon II-project is organised in six work packages:

WP1 – Project and innovation management

WP2 – Openness and availability

WP3 – Services and information exchange

WP4 – Measurement and cost/benefit analyses

WP5 – Barriers and maturity

WP6 – Networking and outreach

 

For more information, please contact project manager.

 

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Subject Areas in Semicolon ll

The Semicolon II-consortium is multidisciplinary with expertise and working areas within a number of fields. The project deals with the following subject areas:

  • Policy development
  • Semantic interoperability
  • Interoperability platforms
  • Legislation
  • Cost/benefit analyses
  • Organizational interoperability

For more details, please contact the project manager.

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Fagområder

Semicolon II er et tverrfaglig prosjekt som opererer innen følgende fagområder: Politikkutforming Semantisk samhandling Samhandlingsplattformer Jus Måleindikatorer, målinger og gevinstrealisering Organisatorisk samhandling

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