e-government: A Legislative Ontology for the SIAP Parliamentary Management System

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1 TED Conference on e-government Electronic Democracy: The challenge ahead e-government: A L for the SIAP Management System C. Costilla, J. Palacios, J. Cremades* and J. Vila Technical University of Madrid, UPM SINBAD-UPM Research Group //sinbad.dit.upm.es * Founder Partner of CRC Information Technologies // TCGOV 2005 Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

2 Contents 1. Introduction and Motivation 2. SIAP Integrated Management System Objectives, Architecture and Capabilities Le Legislative & The Two Columns Notook 3. O for Semantic W 4. L, LO The Legislative Initiative Ontology Component The Legislative Emendation Ontology Component The Proposed Legislative Semantic W 5. C 2 TCGOV 2005

3 Motivation: 1) From the Semantic W point of view otivation IAP System mendation Text egislative Semantic The W grows exponentially: Server Sites (>40 million) & W Information Systems (WIS) Available information (>1.6 Giga-page) User Humans (>650 million) Analysing w sites faces two challenges: The huge amount of on-line published data. According to UC Berkeley, the world produces 1 2 hexabytes of new data every year. The complex structures found in these sites but it is semantically anarchic Current Semantic W only offers hot semantic isolated points An Important Challenge is going on joining these points in order to achieve a Unified/Universal Semantic Scope, tailored to a concise specific domain 3 TCGOV 2005

4 Motivation: 2) From the W Information System perspective otivation IAP System mendation Text egislative Semantic Institutions are claiming Wisdom WIS It is essential to improve the virtual integration of heterogeneous and distributed e-government WIS. (Pre-existing and Legacy WIS). Additionally, it is fundamental to built news WIS regarding to current and future Semantic W. 4 TCGOV 2005

5 Motivation: 3) From the e-government point of view otivation IAP System mendation Text egislative Semantic Governments and Institutions face new W challenges: content, guaranteeing the safety and custody of what the The huge amount of political documentary information, wit a paramount diversity of contents. They need to provide easy access to the informatio hold. This Information needs to be integrated, shared and reused For these reasons, we are researching a generic architecture for the semi-automatic integration of multiple W Sites, allowing queries against several data sources independently of their location and content, as if they were only one. 5 TCGOV 2005

6 Motivation: 4) From the Legislative World point of view otivation IAP System mendation Text egislative Semantic The double goal of a Parliament: To control the executive (the government) that has power over a concise society: country, autonomy, etc. To promote laws as the legislative power basement. Initiative (PI) Typology The PI is the politician s regulated way in order to make the political job into any Parliament. The Legislative Initiative(LI) is a PI type, which goal is the Law promulgation Three kinds of LI: Law Project (from the government s political party) Law Proposition (from another party) Popular LI (rarely, it needs thousand of signed person-name) 6 TCGOV 2005

7 Motivation: 4) From the Legislative World point of view otivation IAP System mendation Text egislative Semantic We still have not any integrated w solution for adding Laws to a Unified Legislative Semantic W environment. So, the w user is unable to access a virtual, dynamic, global and integrated Legislative Information providing a unified and universal semantics. this paper wants contribute in this direction 7 TCGOV 2005

8 SIAP: Integrated Information System otivation IAP System mendation Text egislative Semantic SIAP: The Integrated Management System SIAP is succesfully running at the Asamblea of Madrid since 1999 SIAP manages Activity It controls the workflow of parliamentary documentary information It structures Political Initiative and Activity 8 TCGOV 2005

9 SIAP: Integrated Information System Thanks to SIAP, the Asamblea of Madrid has totally digitized its documentary fonds, since the beginning of our democracy otivation IAP System mendation Text egislative Semantic SIAP is reliable, concurrent and safe SIAP achieves a perfect integration between the structure & organization of the Parliament and its documentary workflow SIAP has an underlying object-relational database 9 TCGOV 2005

10 SIAP: Integrated Information System otivation IAP System mendation Text egislative Semantic SIAP s Objectives and Capabilities: Management of information generated by political Institution activity Control of regulated workflow Semantic control Applications and GUIs software Control of Grants and Privileges Integration with Offimatic Environment More details about Modules and Applications, please see: 10 TCGOV 2005

11 SIAP: Integrated Information System It has two functional architectures: Client/Server (two tiers) W (three o more tiers) otivation IAP System Table Joint of Spokesmen Plenary Sessions Committees Groups mendation Text egislative Semantic Audio and Video Network C/S & W Audio Registers Archive BOAM & DDSS C/S & W Photos, maps, etc External Applications SIAP has been introduced in many Spanish and Political Parties Conferences (since 1999), and it is considered a powerful and complete IS. 11 TCGOV 2005

12 SIAP: Integrated Information System SIAP is powerful and ideally advanced for the w otivation IAP System mendation Text egislative Semantic W Multi-parliamentary It's worth make a previous appointment on how easy is to get dynamic interoperability on the w when data sources have the same WIS (same design and semantic control, similar software, etc.), as figure shows. With similar WIS, e-government w information capabilities will grow in a spectacular way. However, in HWIS environments it could be hard to provide easy and powerful access to a global e-government information. 12 TCGOV 2005

13 SIAP: Integrated Information System otivation IAP System mendation Text egislative Semantic The Activity Management main screen, through which the LI is automatically processed. The Legislative Management is included in the broader SIAP system. 13 TCGOV 2005

14 SIAP: Le otivation IAP System mendation Text egislative Semantic Hierarchical levels of the LI text (LP, LProp): Title, Chapter, Section, Article, etc. LIO (LI Organization) application loads the LI text from a file, organizes and publishes it. The Budget Law Project Application belongs to the Activity Management Motivations Articled: Title Chapter Section Article Apart Subapart Additional Dispositions Derogatory Dispositions Transitory Dispositions Final Dispositions 14 TCGOV 2005

15 SIAP: Le otivation IAP System mendation Text egislative Semantic The main screen of LI organization Once the LI arrives to the Parliament, the LIO application can publish it on the Official Bulletin automatically. In order to publish the LI on the Official Bulletin, SIAP applies the format layout used at the Parliament. 15 TCGOV 2005

16 SIAP: Legislative Initiative Procedural Steps, LI since the LI arrives until the Law is promulgated 6 th, Law 2 nd, Promulgation Joint of Plenary Session Table Spokesmen 5 th, the New LI Text Committee 4 th, Groups Motivation SIAP System Emendation Text Legislative Semantic 1 rst, LI Text Registered 9 th, LAW File Archive Audio and Video 3 rd, LI Text BOAM & DDSS 7 th, LAW BOAM Network C/S & W 8 th, LAW BOAM C/S & W Audio Photos, maps, etc External Applications 16 TCGOV 2005

17 SIAP: Legislative Initiative Procedural Steps, LI Published LI text Legislative (written, transactional or in voce) Propose: Additions, Modifications or Deletions to the LI text Motivation SIAP System Emendation Text Legislative Semantic The related Committee works with the SIAP s Two Columns Notook merging on-line these two Legislative Texts 6 th, Law Promulgation Plenary Session 5 th, the New LI Text Committee Audio and Video 3 rd, LI Text is Published on BOAM 4 th,registered Written Group Audio 7 th, LAW Promulgation BOAM C/S & W 17 TCGOV 2005

18 SIAP: Legislative Initiative Procedural Steps, LI Motivation SIAP System Emendation Text Legislative Semantic LI text the SIAP s Two Columns Notook merges online these two kind of Legislative Texts Two Columns Notook is built from the syntactic links between the LI text and the. SIAP is able to insert, update and remove elements inside a LI from the. SIAP lacks of semantics, so, it cannot understand the changes it makes. Thus, it is impossible to automatically detect inconsistencies or integrity lacks inside each new merged LI text. The lawyer is the person in charge of assuring this kind of semantics among the original LI text and all the approved. 1rst LO reason:, to build a Legislative ontology that monitors the semantics of this final text. 18 TCGOV 2005

19 O for Semantic W Motivation SIAP System e O L Emendation Text Legislative Semantic C An Ontology describes shared knowledge on a specific domain in order to establish a communication via between humans and programs Applications could speak to each other and interpret without ambiguity the information XML It is a mature technology But it is not semantic RDF, RDFS, DAML+OIL and OWL... constitute the current semantic languages 19 TCGOV 2005

20 O for e-government Semantic W Motivation SIAP System e O L Emendation Text Legislative Semantic C We have built 3 previous o: ISAD(G) ISAAR(CPF) SIAP(A), Archive ontology. It has been built from SIAP starting from its Archive Management Subsystem Besides, we have adopted: DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative), from the Online Computer Library Center, ANSI/ISO Z39.85 & ISO standards But the interest goes further on: Archival Standards of the International Council on Archives We follow a step-by-step methodology, that provides a flexible and scalable way for adding other kinds of specific e- Government o (municipal and parliament Governments, administration, education, etc.). 20 TCGOV 2005

21 Previous O for e-government Semantic W ISAD(G) Motivation SIAP System e O L Emendation Text Legislative Semantic C SIAP(A) 21 TCGOV 2005

22 e-government Semantic W: the L, LO Motivation SIAP System egis. Ontology Emendation Text Legislative Semantic 22 TCGOV 2005

23 e-government Semantic W: the L, LO Motivation SIAP System egis. Ontology Emendation Text Legislative Semantic 23 TCGOV 2005

24 e-government Semantic W: the L, LO Motivation SIAP System egis. Ontology Emendation Text Legislative Semantic 24 TCGOV 2005

25 e-goverment Semantic W Architecture Motivation SIAP System egis. Ontology Emendation Text Legislative Semantic Virtual and Dynamic W Integrated Architecture based on a Wrappers layer (saving the data sources heterogeneity using XML) and a Mediator layer (composed of o, mappings and data repositories) Implementation: Service-based, J2EE compliant, Java libraries URL+Query W Browser Request Query W Server HTML Form (Results) Mediator: Global and Dynamic Integration O Wrapper 1 (XML Translator) Virtual Integrated Metadata Mappings Data Source Government 1 DS Asamblea de Madrid Digital Archive n Wrapper n (XML Translator) 25 TCGOV 2005

26 Integration Model based on the Ontological Unification otivation IAP System egis. Ontology I Initial Text mendation Text egislative Semantic GOK, Global Ontological Kernel (High-Integrated Semantic Description Level) SDO, Specific Domain O (First Semantic Description Level) Data Extractor Model (Adapting & Hiding Heterogeneity Level ) Global Ontological Kernel (Unified global semantic integration) ISAD(G) SIAP(L) Wrapper i Mappings Wrapper n Mappings Data Extraction i XML Schema i Inter Ontological Mappings Data Extraction n XML Schema n Universal DA Repository Repositories of Specific e-government O W Data Sources (Data Sources Level) PS C File DB Static W Page 26 TCGOV 2005

27 Integration Model based on the Ontological Unification Global Ontological Kernel Universal DA Repository Motivation SIAP System e O L Emendation Text Legislative Semantic C DATA EXTRAC TOR MODEL GOK, Global Ontological Kernel Ontology Merging SDO, Specific Domain O Ontology Alignment ISAD(G) Vertical Mappings Horizontal Mappings Inter Ontological Mappings GOK SIAP(L) GOK VIEW Specific Query Repositories of Specific Domain O Global Query BROW SER The Unified DA Ontological Model (Mediator) 27 TCGOV 2005

28 C Motivation SIAP System e O L Emendation Text Legislative Semantic C From SIAP (at Parliament of Madrid), the gained experience is very valuable and relevant for us. Our current research is focused on the Integration of Heterogeneous Governmental WIS We are looking for a virtual, flexible and dynamic Integrated Architecture based on Mediator and Wrapper layers We research on a Universal Unification of Governmental concepts by means of GOK and SDO semantic levels Our step-by-step methodology provides a flexible and empirical way for adding other kinds of specific governmental o This paper is part of the Semantic W e-government Architecture we are investigating. It adds a new Legislative Ontology to this researched framework 28 TCGOV 2005

29 Many Thanks Motivation SIAP System Le O L Emendation Text Legislative Semantic W C Any questions?.. 29 TCGOV 2005