Elektronik devlette genişletilebilir biçimleme dili (XML): Bazı örnek senaryolar

ABSTRACTEXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE (XML) INELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT: SOME EXEMPLARYSCENARIOSAyışığı B. SevdikM.S. in Computer EngineeringSupervisor: Prof. Dr. Varol AkmanJanuary, 2004In the last decade or two, information technology (IT) has evolved remarkably as can beperceived by the fact that the Internet has become an indispensable part of our lives.With the advent of the Internet in almost every aspect of our lives, we are said to beliving in the information and knowledge age. However, there is one institution that is notmaking use of these developments in IT, despite the fact that it is the one which dealswith information more regularly than any other. This institution that handles data andproduces new information in every aspect of its work cycle is the government. Hence,applying the advances in information technology to the government, brings before us theconcept of ?electronic government? or as it is briefly called ?e-government?.One of the evolving information technologies is the Extensible Markup Language(XML). The advent of XML has brought both a knowledge dimension and a servicedimension to the universal information repository we call the Web, enabling platform-independent, machine-readable, structured data exchange. As it has quickly become thedata exchange standard of the Web, the business and research communities are readilymaking use of XML and related Web services. Why not pick XML amongst the newinformation technologies to transfer the government into an e-government?XML can be used to achieve interoperability in government-to-government services, amore citizen-centric approach and easier, platform-independent access in government-to-citizen services, and efficiency in government-to-business services; thus,transforming the traditional government into a more productive, paperless electronicgovernment. In this research we explore the application of XML to the ?e-government?concept. We present some exemplary e-government scenarios and show how XML canbe used to implement them as we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of usingXML in e-government.Keywords: Extensible Markup Language (XML), Electronic Government (e-government), Web services.iv