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The successful development of eGovernment is widely acknowledged to be a key contribution to achievement of the European Union’s Lisbon Agenda goals. There has also been increasing attention to the role of the public sector in the system of innovation, not only as a regulator or a financer, but as a set of organisations able to make a contribution to the economy. The full application potential of some Semantic Web (SW) technologies, including Semantic Web Services (SWS) is not yet realised because of a lack of large-scale testing domains. It is argued that large, dynamic, heterogeneous and shared information spaces are required in order to enable effective evaluation. Development of the ontologies and semantics necessary for the interoperability of eGovernment applications has potential to be the first large-scale deployment of the Semantic Web. The eGovernment domain is unique because of the enormous challenges it faces in achieving interoperability and the need to manage complex causes of change. Setting up seamless eGovernment services requires information integration as well as process integration, involving a variety of objects with specific semantics. One key obstacle i