DP-Onto: A Semantic-based Approach for Governing Digital Provider Information

The demand of using digital technology has increased rapidly nowadays. Hence, it is essential for the government of any country to include digital services provider data within their open government data initiative. However, due to the lack of standardized metadata for managing digital services providers, the data is often stored across multiple organizations in a redundant manner. On top of data, digital services providers across different organizations may not be able to interoperate due to data hetereogenity and lack of semantic information compatibility. In this study, we propose to apply Linked Data and Semantic web to manage digital service providers data. To do so, DP-Onto is proposed as a core ontology for governing digital provider data. DP-Onto is demonstrated in the scope of governing digital providers data of Thailand. The usage of DP-Onto in this scope, along with the method for querying digital services providers data across different organization are demonstrated and validated in this study.