Knowledge-first web services an E-Government example

Although semantic technologies aren't used in current software systems on a large scale yet, they offer high potential to significantly improve the quality of electronic services especially in the E-Government domain. This paper therefore presents an approach that not only incorporates semantic technologies but allows to create E-Government services solely based on semantic models. This multiplies the benefits of the ontology modeling efforts, minimizes development and maintenance time and costs, improves user experience and enforces transparency.