Linked Data technologies and their application to e-government

The Open Access Initiative primary encourages state agencies to publish their data as soon as possible. Linked Data Technologies help in this direction. This article introduces concepts and tools that can help to implement projects of Linked Data, as well as some applications in e-Government. Our goal is to provide an overview of this new area and its potential use in the e-Gov field particularly. To achieve a successful implementation at a large scale, some prerrequisites must be ensured: developing methodologies to generate and publish Linked Data faithfully and economically, ensuring the persistence of links and sources, developing standards on recording metadata from this sources, ensuring data privacy, security and preservation, and developint tools to effectively and efficiently retrieve, display and navigate Linked Data.