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Deploying a Semantically-Enabled Content Management System in a State University

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Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective (EGOVIS 2010)

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Public institutes often face the challenge of managing vast volumes of administrative documents, a need that is often met via Content Management Systems (CMSs). CMSs offer various advantages, like separation of data structure from presentation and variety in user roles, but also present certain disadvantages, like inefficient keyword-based search facilities. The new generation of content management solutions imports the notion of semantics and is based on Semantic Web technologies, such as metadata and ontologies. The benefits include semantic interoperability, competitive advantages and dramatic cost reduction. In this paper a leading Enterprise CMS is extended with semantic capabilities for automatically importing and exporting ontologies. This functionality enables reuse of repository content, semantically-enabled search and interoperability with third-party applications. The extended system is deployed in semantically managing the large volumes of documents for a state university.

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  1. Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54124, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Maria Befa, Efstratios Kontopoulos, Nick Bassiliades, Christos Berberidis & Ioannis Vlahavas

  2. School of Science & Technology, International Hellenic University, GR-57001, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Christos Berberidis & Ioannis Vlahavas

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  1. Center for Applied ICT (CAICT) and Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Howitzvej 60, 2000, Frederiksberg, Denmark

    Kim Normann Andersen

  2. Institute of Legal Information, Theory and Techniques, ITTIG-CNR, Via dei Barucci 20, 50127, Florence, Italy

    Enrico Francesconi

  3. ESI/Informatics, Örebro University, 701 82, Örebro, Sweden

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  4. Faculty of Law, Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam, P.O.Box 1030, 1000, Amsterdam, BA, The Netherlands

    Tom M. van Engers

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Befa, M., Kontopoulos, E., Bassiliades, N., Berberidis, C., Vlahavas, I. (2010). Deploying a Semantically-Enabled Content Management System in a State University. In: Andersen, K.N., Francesconi, E., Grönlund, Å., van Engers, T.M. (eds) Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective. EGOVIS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6267. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_24

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