@inproceedings{Davies*2008:Metadata,
  abstract = "Effective data sharing, across government agencies and other organisations, relies upon agreed meanings and representations.&nbsp; A key, technological challenge in electronic governance is to ensure that the meaning of data items is accurately recorded, and accessible in an economical&mdash;effectively, automatic&mdash;fashion.&nbsp; In response, a variety of data and metadata standards have been put forward: from government departments, from industry groups, and from organisations such as the ISO and W3C.<br /><br />This paper shows how the leading standard for metadata registration&mdash;ISO11179&mdash;can be deployed without the need for a single, monolithic conceptualisation of the domain, and hence without the need for universal agreement upon a particular model of electronic governance.&nbsp; The advantages of this approach are discussed with regard to the UK eGovernment Interoperability Framework (eGIF) and the UK Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary (IPSV).",
  address = "Cairo",
  author = "Jim Davies, Steve Harris, Charles Crichton, Aadya Shukla, Jeremy Gibbons",
  booktitle = "International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance",
  month = "December",
  note = "Received a Best Paper Award",
  title = "Metadata Standards for Semantic Interoperability in Electronic Government",
  url = "http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/jeremy.gibbons/publications/metadata-egov.pdf",
  year = "2008",
}