for Local Governments

Modeling and Description
Language
Ontology-based information
exchange
Model exchange
Form Representation and
Data
UML (Unified Modeling Language) RDF
(Resource Description Framework)
OWL (Web Ontology Language Semantics
and Abstract Syntax)
XMI(XMLMetadataInterchange), version
2.1
Xforms
Geospatial data GML (Geospatial Markup Language)
2.3.5 Standards for Web Services
OMG W3C
W3C
OMG
W3C
Open Geospatial Consortium
The use of web services should be strongly encouraged. The set of standards is given
in the table below.
Table 5: Standards for web services
Component Standard Standard Body
Web service request delivery Simple Object Access Protocol SOAP v1.2 W3C
Web service request registry Universal Description, Discovery and Integration
UDDI v3.0
OASIS
Web service description language
WSDL1.1 W3C
2.3.6 Standards and Specifications for Information Access
The Government standards and specifications for information access, browsers and
viewers are defined in the tables below. The services to be delivered to the citizen will
dictate the expected standards required to be supported by the browser. However, as
some browsers may only support the basic standards listed in the former table, this
results in only a limited set of e-Government services being able to be offered via such
browsers.
As such, the essential minimal level of information required to be accessed and viewed
by the citizen should either be conveyed or be capable of being converted using personalization
technologies, e.g. transcoders, through the use of the basic standards.
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