XML, which can be used in Internet directly and applied in various application programs, is widely used in E-government construction. The thesis discussed related technologies about XML and some kinks of XML parsing technologies that implemented by Java. Besides, it analyzed the format of the national E-document based on XML. Meanwhile SAX is suggested as the technology for E-document parsing t...

Transparency and information access are crucial components of a successful democratic society. President-elect Obama has pledged to use all available technologies to make the government more transparent and accountable to its citizens. Version control provides a perfect example of one such technology which is useful for fostering accountability, increasing public confidence, and encouraging par...

The following document is a translation of the 2015-2020 National Mental Health Work Plan of the People's Republic of China which was issued by the General Office of China's State Council on June 4, 2015. The original Chinese version of the document is available at the official government website: http://www.gov.cn/gongbao/content/2015/content_2883226.htm The translators have added annotations ...

We present an automated method of generating human-readable summaries from text documents such as news, technical reports, government documents, and even court records. Our approach exploits an empirical observation that much of the written text display certain regularities of organization and style, which we call the Discourse Macro Structure (DMS). A summary is therefore created to reflect th...

OBJECTIVE To identify the number of Australian clinical practice guidelines, and their key characteristics. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Clinical practice guidelines that were produced or reviewed between 2003 and 2007 for use in Australia at a national or state level were identified by approaching health-related organisations and searching websites. Their characteristics were abstracted ...

The paper contributes to further the understanding of potential impacts e-Government initiatives will have on the state and its society. On the basis of three European case studies, we have examined the correlation of information technology and State transformation, which we present and discuss in this paper. We are about to conceptualize this correlation as virtual governance architecture, whi...

This paper outlines the preliminary findings of the empirical stage of the research to establish the reasons that in 2003 some English local authorities decided to trial e-voting and others did not. The key findings demonstrate that central and local governments have different agendas and there is little momentum from central government to increase the number of pilot schemes. The central gover...

A recent assessment of 4400 postgraduate courses in Brazil by CAPES (a federal government agency dedicated to the improvement of the quality of and research at the postgraduate level) stimulated a large amount of manifestations in the press, scientific journals and scientific congresses. This gigantic effort to classify 16,400 scientific journals in order to provide indicators for assessment pr...

Search engines are very effective at generating long lists of results that are highly relevant to user-provided query terms . But the lack of effective overviews presents challenges to users who seek to understand these results, especially for a complex task such as learning about a topic area, which requires gaining overviews of and exploring large sets of search results, identifying unusual d...

In late 2007, after signing the Kyoto Protocol, a new Australian federal government committed to generating 20% of Australia's electricity from renewable energy by 2020, for a transition to a low-carbon economy. With wind energy the most viable technology for such expansion, little recognition, however, was paid to intense social conflict surrounding wind farm location. By 2006, inadequate comm...