The Chinese genealogies are the best resources for the family histories. They contain excellent information for people’s root tracing and for academic researches. Our Taiwan Genealogy Online Project aims to digitalize genealogy material and to provide online services. This paper explains the design theory and implementation ideas of our system for Chinese genealogy.

Information retrieval or search plays an important role in a wide range of information management and electronic commerce tasks. In spite of the importance of information retrieval, search systems are often poorly designed. The goal of this SIG is to articulate some of the opportunities and challenges in improving and evaluating highly interactive information retrieval systems. Author

Electronic commerce has been changing the operation models of firms to adjust the ever more competitive environment in the the commercial field, and the new ones of cooperation amonge firms have been formed by it. In the globalized electronic commerce, the old and traditional models of supply chain management have fade away by being failed to fill the needs in the electronic commerce, and the n...

The requirement of integrating, sharing and reusing legislative information is a research issue gaining priority for governments and institutions. The legal world is complex, heterogeneous and wide in scope. Therefore, we find convenient to define ontologies as a tool to decrease this complexity inherent to the legal domain. This paper is based on the Parliamentary Integrated Management System ...

Electronic government is attested to have the potential to shape public administrations to be more customer oriented. In order to be customer oriented, municipalities need knowledge about customer needs. Which municipalities explore customer needs and what do they change is investigated using data of a nationwide survey about e-government in Switzerland. Results show big differences in explorin...

This paper explores the business issues affecting the level of implementation of e-procurement in small and medium size enterprises (SME’s). It uses empirical research from 750 organisations to suggest that issues of leadership and waste management are of greater importance to SME’s than development of e-procurement capability to secure competitive advantage. A major barrier is that of people. ...

Electronic Identities (eID) and their cross-border recognition are on top of the agenda of various e-Government initiatives of the European Commission (EC). Therefore, the EC launched the EU large scale pilot STORK, which was running for about 3.5 years and finished at the end of 2011. In this period, STORK has established a European eID interoperability platform for citizens. The focus of STOR...

Along with the e-commerce development, relationship between customers and vendors in e-retail market arouses researchers’ attention. The technology explosion, particularly in the area of knowledge management, makes track of customer behaviour possible. Much research has been done on trust and satisfaction in e-commerce, but little studies integrate confirmation of expectation and sense of belon...

As transaction costs of web-based interaction in e-government continue to decrease, the actors involved are forced to reconsider their roles and value propositions. This paper builds on previous research on government transformation and introduces three propositions on how new opportunities opened up by emerging web technologies and methods lead to a paradigmatic change of the role of administr...

eCommerce technologies have created innumerable opportunities for businesses to reengineer their supply chains. Many businesses have invested an enormous amount of resources in the development of e-enabled supply chain management (eSCM) systems. Anecdotal evidence in the literature suggests that firms have received significant benefits from these investments, but there is no empirical evidence ...