Management of the Citizen’s Digital Identity and Access to Multi-version Norm Texts on the Semantic Web

This paper describes an ongoing research project involving the implementation of e-Government services on the Semantic Web. In particular, the project is aimed at managing the “digital identity” of citizens on the Internet, enabling them to benefit from “personalized” versions of the online services offered by the Public Administration, which can improve and optimize their involvement in the e-Governance process. The kind of service we will consider is the selective access to norm texts available on Web repositories. The project requires the definition and maintenance of a citizen’s ontology, the semantic markup and versioning of the stored norm texts which takes into account the actual applicability to different classes of citizens, the definition and enactment of Web services for the reconstruction of the citizen’s digital identity and its classification with respect to the ontology, the design and implementation of a legal document management system for the selective access to personalized norm versions.