Empowering e-services through the Semantic Web

This article illustrates how to enhance data interoperability among Public Administrations (PPAA) by leveraging the publication of e-services based on Semantic Web (SW) technologies such as ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and data schemas, which, through standard languages like OWL, RDF, and SPARQL, ensure harmonization, integrability, and unique semantics for representing administrative data. Furthermore, the potential benefits of implementing semantic e-services through Ontology-based Data Management (OBDM), a data governance methodology that enables data services through ontologies, decoupling their implementation from the physical data sources of PPAA, are discussed. Additionally, the advantages for PPAA of data exchange through semantic e-services utilizing concepts published in the Schema platform, developed by the National Data Catalog project funded through PNRR funds, will be highlighted in the presented use case.