Veit Jahns

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• Chapter: The Metaphorical Foundation of Interoperability Artifacts: The Case of Public Services

  V. Jahns
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  ABSTRACT: In this chapter, artifacts designed to facilitate the semantic interoperability between Information Systems are discussed in relation to the so-called metaphor theory. The main assumption of this theory is that the conceptualization of the world is mainly a metaphorical one; i.e., the concepts of a given domain are conceptualized by concepts of a more concrete domain. Based on this theory, selected interoperability artifacts for the modeling and describing public services are discussed and analyzed. In particular, it will be demonstrated how the conceptual metaphor can be used to get a better understanding of the domain the interoperability artifacts are designed for.
  01/2012: pages 233-248; , ISBN: 9781466601468
• Conference Proceeding: Evaluating Interoperability Artifacts for the Exchange of Public Service Information: Outline of a Conceptual Framework

  V. Jahns
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  ABSTRACT: A driver interoperability of information systems in public authorities are initiatives for the simplifying of access to public authorities and public services by citizens and enterprises. The spectrum of such initiatives reaches from initiative on the national level like the German project D115 for a single phone number for all German public authorities over initiatives on the supranational level like initiatives related to the implementation of the European Service Directive up to global initiatives like the open data movement to make all data gathered by public authorities accessible to the public, in particular accessible in machine-readable way. All these initiatives have in common, that they are related in some way or the other to public services, i.e. they have to deal with the challenge of describing public services either as a base for exchange information about these public services within the public administration or between public authorities and citizens and enterprises or as a base for developing information systems to support the provision of public services. As a result of these initiatives a numerous artifacts have been developed, including languages and methods for modeling public services, ontologies and taxonomies for public services, etc. Although, these multitude of artifacts has the positive effect, that there is a high chance, that every aspect of the complex concept “public service” is covered by at least one of the artifacts, it is difficult to keep track on all these artifacts, in the sense, how these artifacts are related to each other. In this paper a conceptual framework for evaluating such artifacts is proposed, which allows an evaluation of these artifacts with respect to the question given above. But this conceptual frameworks can be also useful for support of an artifact to solve a particular description problem regarding public services on the one hand, and on the other hand, it can be useful for the integration of these artifacts.
  2nd International Conference on Information Management and Evaluation, Toronto, Canada; 01/2011
• Conference Proceeding: Bridging the IT/process divide in public administrations by simple semantic interoperability artefacts

  R. Orlowski, V. Jahns
  11th European Conference on eGovernment (ECEG 2011), Ljubljana, Slovenia; 01/2011
• Chapter: E-Business Interoperability: A Systematization Attempt Based on the Morphology Concept

  F.-D. Dorloff, V. Jahns, V. Schmitz
  01/2011; , ISBN: 978-1609604851
• Conference Proceeding: Ethik als Grundlage sozialer Kompetenz im Systems Engineering

  V. Jahns, H.-G. Siebert
  Tag des Systems Engineering 2010, Freising, Germany; 01/2010