2. Activities in e-Government in Japan

Works [Structures, XML documents (XML instances)] for 1 month per 1 person

NOTE: Hard copy documents (sheets) are converted into XML documents defining the structures by RELAX NG, W3C XML schema and DTD.

• RELAX NG schema: 30 hours
•   Validation of schema and XML documents: 5 hours
•   Comments description: 10 hours
•   Document analysis and work report 10 hours
• W3C XML schema and DTD (conversion from RELAX NG): 3 hours
• XML document: 40 hours

• Review: 30 hours
• Review meetings: 22 hours
• Inclusion of review: 5 hours

Efficiency

• Creation of structures and XML documents: 4 sheets/0.6 month*person, 100 tags/0.6 month*person
• Review: 12 sheets/0.2 month*person

NOTE: Style specification are actually being developed but not yet estimated for the work efficiency.

As a conclusion of those works in 2004, we found that:

• there are a number of common patterns in the document structure
• some modularizations are indispensable for the higher efficiency of works.