DIP Emergency Planning prototype: user group site

DIP Integrated Project

The DIP project, http://dip.semanticweb.org/index.html
funded under the EU IST research programme (FP6) has been developing an infrastructure to build and make available prototype Semantic Web Service systems to the e-Government sector, as well as other business domains such as banking and telecommunications.

eGovernment Use Case

Its e-Government use case, led by Essex County Council and supported by big academic and industry players such as the Open University Knowledge Media Institute, Digital Enterprise Research Unit (Galway), British Telecom and SAP, has developed an innovative prototype Emergency Management Service which demonstrate the key benefits to be gained. You can see the latest version of the prototype in the screencast at the following address
http://irs-test.open.ac.uk/sgis-dev/vlad/sgis.htm

We would welcome your comments via the discussion list on this site.

Semantic Web Services

SWS bring together the power of Web Services, in simplifying the integration of applications and the sharing of data across departmental and organisational boundaries, with the richness of the Semantic Web, in enabling computers to interpret meaning without human intervention. The result is a powerful mechanism which could help to automate e-Government business processes more easily and cheaply, improve the information available to policy makers and front line service delivery staff and support better and more consistent decision-making.

DIP’s objective is to develop and extend Semantic Web and Web Service technologies in order to produce a new technology infrastructure for Semantic Web Services (SWS) - an environment in which different web services can discover and cooperate with each other automatically. DIP's long term mission is to deliver the enormous potential benefits of Semantic Web Services to e-Work and e-Commerce.