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In this paper a pilot project on Linked Open Data (LOD) and e-Participation, promoted by the European Parliament and developed by the Publications Office of the European Union (OP), is described. By exploiting the LOD service for pre-legislative documents available at OP, the project aims at allowing citizens to actively participate in public consultations within the EU decision-making process. In particular it gives citizens the possibility to participate in the preparation of standard-compliant and process-compatible documents throughout the law-making. In particular they can provide comments and amendments on each document fragment, as well express their sentiments on them. The data produced will be available as LOD; for this reason a specific semantic approach able to describe documents and users activities is implemented.
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Schmitz, P. et al. (2016). Linked Open Data and e-Participation in the EU Law-Making Process. In: Kő, A., Francesconi, E. (eds) Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective. EGOVIS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9831. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44159-7_6
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